Qualcomm used its CES press conference today to announce the third generation of its Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform, its latest AI-centric platform for building in-car experiences that include everything from voice-driven interfaces to good-old navigation systems, all with modern visual interfaces.
The platform now comes in three tiers — Performance, Premiere and Paramount — for entry-level, mid-tier and high-end platforms. The core is the same, though, and it’s built on top of the Snapdragon 820A platform with supports for the company’s AI Engine, signal processor, CPUs and GPUs.
It also includes the Qualcomm Hexagon Processor, an accelerator for running machine learning models for use cases like natural language processing and object classification, as well as Qualcomm Vision camera sensors and computer vision hardware. The Vision part isn’t meant to power self-driving cars, though. Instead, it’s meant to “support differentiated use-cases on lane-level crowdsourcing of drive data for building map layers.” What the platform does offer, though, is support for contextual safety for driving assistant features like in-cabin monitoring and surround view monitoring.
“With our 3rd Generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platforms, we are reiterating our commitment to bring highly differentiated and customizable in-car experiences to our customers,” said Nakul Duggal, senior vice president of product management, Qualcomm Technologies. “Our new Snapdragon Automotive Platforms are designed to deliver a concurrent implementation of next generation high-resolution digital instrument clusters with industry leading infotainment technologies supported through artificial intelligence capabilities, leading edge graphics for high-resolution multiple display configurations, vision enhanced precise positioning for supporting safer and smarter navigation, much more.”
The platform is now available to the automotive industry and the company’s development tools for the automotive industry now support it.
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Unveiled today at CES, the LiveWire will hit 60 mph in 3.5 seconds and cover 110 miles between charging stops.
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Apple isn’t at CES 2019 officially, but it’s haunting the show with a sweet little dig at the competition.
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Netgear’s well-regarded mesh wireless line will support the new Wi-Fi 6 standard when it launches in the second half of 2019.
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From ‘Pose’ to ‘Jane the Virgin’, mothers on TV are getting much more complex—and that’s a good thing.
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The China-based TV maker will also build far-field voice control into some of its 2019 TVs.
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And Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is still coming, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige says at the Golden Globes.
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Intel is slated to talk about topics including client computing, 5G, artificial intelligence, data center, and more during its CES 2019 keynote. We’ll show you how to tune in live on January 7 to watch Intel’s press conference.
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No need to worry about what’s behind your trailer, because you can see straight through the thing.
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Ahead of its announcements of new TV partnerships at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Roku today shared some new numbers about the growing traction of its overall platform. The company said the number of active accounts grew 40 percent year-over-year in 2018, to top 27 million by year-end. In addition, its total streaming hours grew 61 percent year-over-year to 24 billion hours of movies, TV shows, sports and more being streamed across its devices.
In Q4 2018 alone, Roku users streamed an estimated 7.3 billion hours, up about 68 percent year-over-year.
Roku’s decision to release new numbers about active users and hours streamed comes at a time when the company itself is becoming more competitive with streaming services themselves, instead of just offering a platform on which their apps can run. In fall 2017 Roku began to aggregate the free content from the various channels across its platform in its own Roku Channel, then combined that with content it licensed directly from studios. This free, ad-supported content has given Roku a way to further grow its advertising revenues.
Since its launch, the channel has added more types of content, including sports, news and entertainment from both traditional and digital studios, and just last week launched its own set of premium subscriptions where it gets a cut of customers’ purchases.
Some analysts now believe The Roku Channel’s average revenue per user is now the fastest-growing contributor to overall revenue growth at Roku
Now Roku is working with more manufacturers to get its Roku OS – and therefore its Roku Channel – in front of more people.
At CES this week, Roku announced the Westinghouse Electronics was joining the Roku TV licensing program.
It also announced a partnership with TV brand TCL. The two companies will work together to make 8K TCL Roku TVs that will become available to consumers in late 2019. As a result of catering to TV makers, Roku said it’s updating its 4K and HDR hardware reference design to include far-field microphones for voice search and control. TCL will be the first to deliver these TV models in 2019.
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