AMBARELLA TO USE SAMSUNG'S 5NM TECHNOLOGY FOR ITS AUTOMOTIVE AI CENTRAL DOMAIN CONTROLLER

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, and Ambarella, Inc., an edge AI semiconductor company, recently announced that Samsung’s Foundry business is providing its 5-nanometer (nm) process technology to Ambarella for its newly announced CV3-AD685 automotive AI central domain controller.

The CV3-AD685 is the first production version of Ambarella’s CV3-AD family of automotive AI central domain controllers. Samsung’s 5nm process technology is optimized for automotive-grade semiconductors, with extremely tight process controls and advanced IP for exceptional reliability and outstanding traceability.

The CV3-AD685 integrates Ambarella’s next-generation CVflow^® AI engine, which includes neural network processing 20 times faster than the previous generation of Ambarella’s CV2 SoCs. It also provides general-vector and neural-vector processing capabilities to deliver the overall performance required for fully autonomous driving (AD) stack processing, including computer vision, 4D imaging radar, deep sensor fusion and path planning.

The CV3-AD685 will be the first in the CV3-AD product family to use Samsung’s 5nm process, and this SoC integrates advanced image processing, a dense stereo and optical flow engine, ARM^® Cortex^® A78AE and R52 CPUs, an automotive GPU for visualizations, and a hardware security module (HSM). It features an “algorithm first” architecture supporting the entire autonomous-driving software stack.