Automotive Computing Conference USA 2026
March 24 - 25, 2026 | Detroit, USA
Dive Deeper into the Chiplet Market & Future Challenges
Imec
Jim Foresi, Director of automotive semiconductor R&D site, will have a presentation:
The automotive industry is undergoing rapid transformation. With advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous capabilities, and immersive infotainment, the demand for computing power has grown significantly. But delivering such performance, while maintaining safety, reliability, and cost-efficiency, is becoming increasingly difficult with traditional monolithic chip designs.
Chiplet-based architectures offer a modular, scalable and cost-effective pathway to meet these demands, enabling faster innovation cycles and flexible platforms tailored to diverse automotive workloads. Furthermore, an open automotive chiplet ecosystem with a high level of interface standardization and agreed-upon architecture blueprints across the industry is imperative to ensure interoperability, compatibility, and scalability
In this session, Jim Foresi will share imec’s vision for next-generation automotive compute, including a review of collaborative work between imec and the University of Michigan supported by the State of Michigan’s mstar initiative.
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Focus Topics in 2026:
- New cost structures for efficient computing architectures
- Virtualization and standardized software
- Chiplets for advanced automotive computing
- AI integration in vehicle functions
- “Glocalization” – building global platforms with local adaptation
- Cost efficiency through cooperation