NXP taps to foster China's semiconductor usage market

By Liu Zheng (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2016-03-30 12:15

NXP took part in the Shanghai smart connected car pilot program for jointly launched the world's first energy-positive solar-powered family car named Stella Lux in November 2015.[Photo/IC]

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In late November last year, NXP took part in the Shanghai smart connected car pilot program for jointly launched the world's first energy-positive solar-powered family car named Stella Lux.

The car also comes with various vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure (V2X) secure connected technologies and micro-controllers supplied by the semiconductor maker.

The technologies are believed to enable vehicles to communicate with each other and infrastructure equipment to improve traffic and driving safety.

"More improvements of the car's performance will be accomplished this year," said Zheng. "Such as speed adjustment, which will allows the car to acquire effective pre-judgment ability for preventing collisions when makes a turn."

Meanwhile, in March this year, NXP announced plans to join the US Department of Transportation's Smart City Challenge as a provider of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2X) technology.

With this partnership, NXP, together with its partner Cohda Wireless, will provide the contest's winning community with wireless technology that allows cars to securely exchange data, such as hazard warnings, over distances of more than a mile to prevent accidents and improve traffic flow.

According to the company, the Smart City Challenge is a nationwide competition set to award the winning, medium-sized US city a prize of $50 million through the Department of Transportation and its partners, for that city's ideas to develop the connected city of the future and address the challenges that growing populations present to transportation infrastructure.

As part of NXP's partnership with the Department of Transportation, the winning city will also receive advanced NXP technologies, including V2X systems engineered to dramatically enhance the future of transportation.

"We believe that this collaboration model will be introduced into Chinese cities in the near future," said Zheng.

Zheng also pointed out that the company will focus more on the co-operation with rising connected-automobile makers, such as Baidu Inc, LeEco and BYD Co.