INTEL BUYS MOBILEYE: A Chip Maker Lends Its Vision to Cars

摘要

Over the last two years, Intel seemed to have bought up enough vital parts of self-driving cars to rival Mobileye, the supplier of vision processors, software, and digital maps. And yet the company announced last month that it had acquired Mobileye for $15.3 billion. In previous deals, Intel had acquired vision software from Itseez and hardware from Movidius for wiring image recognition into drones and security cameras. The $16.7 billion deal it signed with Altera two years ago gave it programmable chips that would later be used in an autonomous driving development platform.