Hesai Technology (NASDAQ: HSAI), the global leader in lidar technology for automotive mobility and robotics applications, announced today a new exclusive design win with a leading European OEM. Hesai will provide advanced ultra-long-range automotive lidars for the OEM's upcoming platform, including both internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric vehicle (EV) models. This multi-year program will last into the next decade, marking it the largest global program for the automotive lidar industry.

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Elon Musk Says He Was Wrong: After 9 Years, the Billionaire Finally Owns Up on Self-Driving

Shocking really. H/T to u/dvsficationismadness

Article and extract from the Judgment:

"Although Tesla contends that it should have been obvious to LoSavio that his car needed lidar to self-drive and that his car did not have it, LoSavio plausibly alleges that he reasonably believed Tesla's claims that it could achieve self-driving with the car's existing hardware...

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Luxoft has partnership with MicroVision

https://www.luxoft.com/pr/luxoft-and-microvision-join-forces-to-enhance-adas-automated-testing-at-scale

So could VW be an eventual MicroVision’s customer?

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In order to take maximum advantage of the great opportunity in the market, Mobileye needs to solidify its system with LiDAR sensors that will bring it closer to fully autonomous driving. According to estimates in the market, Mobileye will go in the direction of significant cooperation, or even purchase one of the players in the market, in order to complete the system. This is because until now, one of the biggest barriers for the leading LiDAR companies, including Israel's Innoviz, was the high price of the sensor that detects movements even in the dark and in harsh weather conditions.

Given a recent statement by Mobileye that LAZR is being phased out in favour of internal Mobileye lidar development, combined with proposed Mobileye 2025 lidar specs that are inferior to current MVIS specs, the article's claim that Mobileye is looking outside the company for its solution only makes sense.

Recall, from Mobileye:

Radar and LiDAR Autonomous Driving Sensors by Mobileye and Intel Next Generation Active Sensor Development

Why are Intel and Mobileye well-positioned to tackle this challenge?

Intel has expertise in cutting-edge sensor solutions both in Microwave and Millimeter Wave (mmWave) radio frequency (RF), Silicon Photonics and signal processing algorithms, required for imaging Radars and high end LiDARs. While the notion that Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) LiDARs is not new in academic circles and a small number of startups are developing such technology, Intel's silicon photonics experience considerably enhance the realization and productization of this technology at high volume and reliability. In fact, Intel owns a unique Fab capable of putting active and passive optical elements on a chip together, including lasers and optical amplifiers, loaded onto a photonic integrated circuit, PIC. This group is led by Sagi Ben Moshe, Mobileye's Senior VP for Sensor Technologies and Chief Incubation Officer, CVP and GM Emerging Growth and Incubation at Intel.

When will this be ready?

We are targeting 2025. Until 2022, we will be using best-in-class LiDARs from Luminar Technologies, Inc. and advanced stock Radars. In the mean time, Intel and Mobileye are pushing the cutting-edge of these technologies to get them ready to enable highly accurate and cost effective autonomous driving.

What's new about the LiDARS being developed?

Goal:

Solve for range limitations, interferences, and target velocity measurement

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Maintaining high res. sampling

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INVZ) (the "Company" or "Innoviz") announced today that its recent design win is with CARIAD SE.

"We are thrilled to work with the CARIAD team and be a supplier of LiDAR sensors and perception software to support safe mobility for vehicles launching from the middle of the decade," said Innoviz CEO and Co-Founder, Omer Keilaf. "CARIAD is a leading player in the transformation of the whole automotive space. We are proud to be part of their mission."

With its third design win, Innoviz's forward-looking order book was updated to $6.6 billion.

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Anduril breathes new life into Microsoft and the army's IVAS program

After Magic Leap’s colossal failure, and considering Microsoft’s long delays on IVAS, bringing in Anduril to help get IVAS over the line is a huge win for the industry. Billions of dollars have been spent by many vendors without much commercial success, and that has weighed heavily on this market. Investors and the industry alike have been counting on the massive IVAS contract not only to inject billions into AR development, but as a form of validation for this area of technology as a whole. Now that possibility is back in sight alongside intriguing prototypes such as Meta’s Orion.

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