Comment The exact chips... (Score 4, Interesting) 117
are Infineon Aurix (TriCore) chips. These are mostly 20+ year old technology for vehicles with electrical systems based on the AUTOSAR stack. The automotive industry has collectively refused to move beyond this stack despite its inability to scale effectively for the demands of modern cars. There really isn't anything these chips are doing that cannot be done with ASIL certified lockstep ARM chips, but the investment in AUTOSAR makes it a huge pain for these companies to rework their development methods and electrical architectures. They also don't have the right kind of software engineers to handle such a transition.