As chip designer Arm announced on its website, AVCC currently has eight members: in addition to Arm itself, the automobile manufacturers Toyota and General Motors, as well as Bosch, Continental, Denso, Nvidia, and NXP Semiconductors.

Dipti Vachani, Senior Vice President Automotive and IoT at Arm, emphasizes that the use of assistance systems in fully autonomous vehicles requires close industry collaboration. That’s why the AVCC wants to create an ecosystem of industry experts whose innovations will facilitate the realization of fully autonomous vehicles. The aim is to develop a set of recommendations for a system architecture and computer platform that reconciles the performance requirements of autonomous systems with vehicle-specific requirements and limitations in terms of size, temperature range, power consumption, and safety. These recommendations will be specially developed to bring autonomous vehicles from today’s prototype stage to series production.