Automotive

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Automotive products

New research shows cars need more memory than a rocket

As cars become more intelligent and software-driven, memory and storage are the building blocks needed to enable future-looking innovations. In the recent Micron-commissioned report, “Bits, bytes, and the connected car,” S&P Global Mobility provides a number of highlights into one of the fastest-growing segments in the semiconductor industry.

Automotive megatrends and their impact on memory and storage

The five automotive megatrends — autonomous, electrification, enriched cabins, connectivity and zonal architectures — are significantly transforming the automotive industry, especially car memory and storage requirements.

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DRAM in safety critical automobile systems

Micron’s comprehensive automotive memory and data storage portfolio enables transformative applications.

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First to functional safety

Micron leads the industry with ISO 26262 ASIL-D certification for product and process, helping reduce complexity and cost for automotive manufacturers.

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Data-intensive automotive applications require advanced car memory and data storage

Micron’s products are paving the way for advanced automotive applications and capabilities that require the highest memory and storage performance in the most demanding environments.

Our industry-leading portfolio addresses the unique requirements of today’s — and tomorrow’s — most data-intensive automotive applications. These applications enable such technologies as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, enriched cabins, connected cars and shared vehicles.

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Frequently asked questions

Car manufacturers use artificial intelligence in nearly all areas of the automotive industry — from design improvements and manufacturing processes to the movement of autonomous cars in traffic.

Memory is a very important element enabling connectivity and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that require fast, resilient, on-board memory to operate.

Systems like navigation consoles and infotainment require their own memory as they need to quickly and reliably store code, take data, process it, and output data – in both shock resistant and wide temperature range environments.

The basic types of memory and storage used in automotive solutions are:

DRAM
LPDRAM
NOR
NAND
eMMC
UFS
NVMe

Functional safety is the absence of unreasonable risk due to hazards caused by failures or unintended behaviors of electrical and electronic systems.

To achieve this high degree of accuracy – essential for public safety – the datasets required to generate inferences are enormous, requiring substantial compute, memory and storage resources.

Micron introduced SAFER automotive memory, which provides unique capabilities for functional safety through engineering leadership and random and systematic fault coverage.

This Micron SAFER framework provides guidance for considering breakthrough automotive memory solutions and support.

Your owner’s manual for automotive memory.

We know automotive memory and storage. We’ve been doing it for more than 30 years. If you need information and insight, we’ve got it. Here’s some of our latest.