At the world premiere of CES in Las Vegas, Bosch demonstrated their new vehicle computer, dubbed the cockpit and ADAS integration platform, making them the world's first automotive supplier to demonstrate the fusion of infotainment and driver assistance functions in a software-intensive central computer on a single system on chip (SoC).
The single SoC at the core of this new vehicle computer processes a variety of functions from the two domains of infotainment and driver assistance simultaneously. This includes automated parking and lane detection, paired with personalized navigation and voice assistance.
"We want to reduce the complexity of the electronics systems in cars and make them as secure as possible at the same time," said Dr. Markus Heyn, chairman of Bosch Mobility. "With this demonstration of our new vehicle computer platform at CES, we are taking an important step in exactly this direction. Our goal in the medium term is to bring even more automated driving functions to the road, including to the compact and midsized car segments."
For its central vehicle computers, Bosch uses a modular system principle. Together with standalone software solutions such as video perception for surround sensing, vehicle manufacturers can assemble their individual solutions in combination with hardware components. Software-intensive central computers play a decisive role here since they enable manufacturers to implement driving and assistance features.
Bosch predicts that the market for automotive software will reach a volume of around $200 billion by 2030. In the field of vehicle computers for infotainments and driver assistance systems, the company expects a market volume of $32 billion in 2030.
