The two American corporations Nvidia and Qualcomm currently still play a subordinate role in autochips.
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San Diego, New York, Munich Patents, patents and even more patents: A huge wall in the entrance hall of the company headquarters of the chip company Qualcomm serves as an exhibition space for the certificates of the various patent offices all over the world. Company boss Cristiano Amon has more than 140,000 patents in more than 100 countries. Many of these revolve around smartphones. But the company has focused on a new business area: cars.
Nilesh Parekh leads past the wall with the patents to a brightly lit room. In the middle is the prototype of a car. “This is how we envision the future of connected driving,” said Parekh, a senior executive at Qualcomm’s auto division. “We provide the brains of the vehicles,” he says, pointing to two boxes under the hood of the vehicle that Qualcomm is marketing as the Snapdragon Digital Chassis.
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