“ASRA will research and develop SoCs for automobiles using chiplet technology to install SoC in mass-production vehicles from 2030 onward,” according to a release made public four weeks after the fact. Roughly 1000 semiconductors are used in each automobile, and the types vary depending on the application. Among them, SoCs are essential semiconductors for autonomous driving technology and multimedia systems in automobiles, which require the latest semiconductor technology to achieve advanced computing power,” the consortium said in a release.

Keiji Yamamoto, Senior Fellow, Toyota Motor Corp., is the chairperson of the company. Nobuaki Kawahara, Senior Advisor, DENSO Corp., is the executive director.

*Automotive Manufacturers
• Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Mazda Motor Corporation
• Nissan Motor Corporation
• Subaru Corporation
• Toyota Motor Corporation
Electrical Component Manufacturers
• Denso Corporation
• Panasonic Automotive Systems Co.
Semiconductor Companies
• Cadence Design Systems, Japan
• MIRISE Technologies Corporation
• Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Socionext Inc.
• Synopsys Japan