Intel Owns Mobileye
Nvidia, Google’s Waymo, Baidu and Tesla are among the top self-driving car companies. But Intel’s purchase of software and camera company Mobileye for $15.3 billion earlier this month puts them on hallowed ground: With Intel’s hardware and Mobileye’s software, Intel might be able to rapidly turn into a full-stack self-driving car company. Intel has been seeing 15 percent growth year over year, so it’s doing something right. It just needs to keep up that success. They’re planning to build a test fleet of 100 fully autonomous cars, the first of which will be complete later this year.
How Intel Could Disrupt the Competition
In a recent article, analyst Motek Moyen broke down the reasoning behind Intel’s ability to disrupt the market and undercut everyone else’s efforts. In a nutshell, it’s because tech giants don’t have the infrastructure to dominate the car industry: It’s the auto industry leaders who will win. Intel already has technologies from Movidius, Nervana Systems, and Itseez in addition to Mobileye, and they are well positioned to cut a deal with Ford. And government standards will play a part as well: As it turns out, Intel isn’t competing with the rest of the self-driving car titans. It could instead team up with Ford and let Ford fight the other self-driving car disruptors. And Ford is one competitor any new-tech car company should be scared of. It will likely be easier to convince government regulators to approve consumer self-driving cars if they have a universal industry standard platform/technology,” Moyen says. Read more about autonomous cars at TechCo
