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Peering into the Future of Automotive Development

Aug. 26, 2025

Cars represent one aspect of technology that’s also a fundamental part of society. As such, it’s a focus for all developing trends, from the IoT and edge computing to AI.

Alix Paultre

Suraj Gajendra

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Electronic Design

Many things in our lives that we’ve created are important to our ability to function as a society, including vehicles. The invention of the car literally changed society almost overnight. And every electronics advance since has seemingly manifested itself in the automotive world, from the radio to the tape deck to satellite navigation to the cloud and IoT.

In this podcast we talk to Suraj Gajendra, Vice President - Products & Software Solutions, Automotive Business at Arm, about the current trends and technologies driving the development of automotive systems. Recently, Arm and Panasonic Automotive Systems (PAS) announced a new partnership to reduce fragmentation in the industry through increased standardization, ultimately accelerating automotive development.

In addition, the company announced its commitment to join imec’s Automotive Chiplet Program (ACP). It’s a pre-competitive, collaborative research project with the goal of evaluating chiplet architectures and packaging/integration technologies that are best suited for car manufacturers' high-performance computing needs and strict safety requirements.

Arm is also a part of other collaborative efforts like SOAFEE, an industry-wide initiative that aims to standardize automotive software development, which will ultimately help facilitate integration of chiplets. On top of that, the company is dedicated to providing an accelerated path to chiplet-based designs through initiatives like ACP and with the expected launch of Arm Compute Subsystems for Automotive in 2025.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.

About the Author

Suraj Gajendra | Vice President - Products & Software Solutions, Automotive Business, Arm

Suraj Gajendra is Vice President - Products & Software Solutions, Automotive Business at Arm, the Governing Body Chair for SOAFEE, and a Member of the Board of Directors for the Autoware Foundation.