(iTers News) - Hyundai AUTRON, subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Company, plans to outsource the design and manufacturing of automotive chip to Infineon, Elmos Semiconductor AG, and ST Microelectronics.

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The move is the Korean car maker’s 10 year–long strategic plan to strengthen its position in the future car market for EV and self-driving cars, as cars are coming embedded with more computing and electronics technology

Especially, chips are in high demand, as cars of tomorrow will look more like data centers where data gathered by sensors are processed, transmitted, and stored across.

To keep up the technology trend, Hyundai has signed a contract chip-making deal with Infineon, ST Microelectronics, and Elmos Semiconductor AG, under which Hyundai will draw a blueprint for chips like specs and functionalities.

The three contract chip makers will design, chip circuitry layout and functional blocks following Hyundai’s design specs and then fabricate them.

The chips to be developed would be those for engine and body controls as well as power control and management.

Hyundai’s design scheme requires the integration of discrete parts into a single integrated circuit chip solution.

Those chips will roll off the line starting from 2019 and be put to commercial use for Hyundai cars by 2020.

Established in 2012, Hyundai AUTRON has been working its way as an in-house chip development subsidiary for Hyundai Motors, having dedicated human resources to developing in-vehicle SoC, but with little success. The outsourcing deal is to lay out the groundwork for its own indigenous chip design expertise and know-how.

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