Dutch semiconductor manufacturer NXP has announced a new strategic collaboration and investment agreement with Hawkeye Technology, a company at the forefront of the Chinese automotive radar sector. Hawkeye will offer its deep 77 GHz expertise, an engineering team and a state-of-the-art lab complex within Southeast University in Nanjing, China. Together, the two companies will create NXP-based reference designs for the Chinese automotive market. Financial details have not been disclosed.
China’s automotive radar sensor market is growing at nearly two times the world market rate. Current automotive market analysis projects that by 2020, radar technology will be in fifty percent of all newly produced cars. These robust appraisals are driven in part by the China New Car Assessment Program (C-NCAP), which mandates the further implementation and innovation of radar in safety-related applications such as blind spot detection, automatic emergency braking, front and rear cross-traffic detection, and precise environmental mapping.
NXP is a pioneer and market leader in RFCMOS-based 77 GHz automotive radar sensors, a key technology in the next phase of the advanced driving assistance roadmap. This leading-edge technology will continue to develop to address the detection and classification of vulnerable road users, full and surround view applications and the ultimate solution: imaging radar, which could in time replace more expensive and bulky technologies. The collaboration with Hawkeye and Southeast University will address important research areas in automotive radar and help the Chinese automotive market innovate with system-level solutions and radar reference designs.
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