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Lars Reger, VP automotive strategy, new business and R&D at NXP Semiconductors talks to Neil Tyler about what he sees as a ‘revolution’ in automotive electronics and the rise of the connected car.
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Smart phones and tablets, apps from the App Store, Google services from the cloud — the consumer’s lifestyle has radically altered in recent years. But how do you introduce a digital lifestyle to the automobile?
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The Raspberry Pi is set to get smarter with new intelligence that will arrive through a plug-in module that adds Z-Wave, the key enabling technology that is behind wireless home control and automation. The marriage of the two technologies has been launched at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Following a healthy expansion in 2012, the growth of the global automotive semiconductor market is set to decelerate slightly this year because of a slowdown in the aftermarket and portable navigation device (PND) segments. Total semiconductor revenue in 2013 derived from automotive infotainment will reach $6.67 billion, up 3 percent from $6.48 billion, according to IHS. Growth this year will be lower than last year’s approximately 4 percent increase, but an acceleration is expected next year and beyond, with revenue growth of 3 to 7 percent each year during the next five years.
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For anyone who doubts the power and prevalence of ‘disruptive technologies’—defined by a Harvard Business School professor as a new technology that unexpectedly displaces an established technology—just look at the speed of adoption of new technologies today versus a few decades ago.
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