CES 2023 | Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Flex SoCs unveiled to drive the future of OEM's advanced in-car technology

The Snapdragon Digital Chassis Concept Vehicle encompasses Qualcomm's ambitions to remain at the forefront of the next-gen driving experience of the future (and also that of auto-making in general). It involves an increasingly pervasive car-wide processors integrating hardware, software and services, a major "pillar" of which are the computing solutions presented at CES 2023 as Snapdragon Ride Platforms.

Qualcomm has announced that the next generation of these Platforms is to be based on an advanced 4 nanometer (nm) process and are pitched at tier-1 automakers as practically all-in-one platforms that implement "the industry's only scalable and open system designed for ADAS and AD".

The OEM has also unveiled Snapdragon Ride Flex SoCs at the major trade show, a new automotive computing platform that, like the rest of the Snapdragon Ride Platform family, integrate the NCAP-approved and European General Safety Regulations-certified Ride Vision stack for the sensor control necessary for next-gen self-driving possibilities.

Flex SoCs are also to come pre-installed with a software suite complete with a real-time OS with Qualcomm's Automotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR) for applications such as a car's hypervisor as well as their infotainment screens. They are also rated to deliver features such as parking assistance, and driver monitoring.

Accordingly, Qualcomm now touts its upcoming Ride Flex chips as a multi-priority "digital cockpit, ADAS and AD...on a single SoC". Their first generation are being sampled among automotive OEMs from now, with mass production projected to begin in 2024.

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