Intel Opens Advanced Vehicle Lab in Silicon Valley

Chipmaker Intel Corp. has opened its Advanced Vehicle Lab in San Jose, Calif.

The Silicon Valley facility will focus on technologies related to autonomous vehicles, including sensing, in-vehicle computing, artificial intelligence, connectivity, and cloud-based systems and services. Intel says researchers at the lab’s “autonomous garage” will work with customers and other partners to develop new ways to analyze and process large amounts of data generated by sensors (as much as 4 terabytes every 90 minutes) within the vehicle, across networks and in remote data centers.

Engineers at the labs will use a variety of development and testing tools, including vehicles equipped with Intel-based computing systems and various sensors to gather data. The California center will work with Intel’s existing vehicle labs in Arizona, Germany and Oregon.

In conjunction with the opening of the lab, Intel co-hosted an Autonomous Driving Workshop at the facility with BMW, Delphi, Ericsson and HERE mapping. Earlier this year Intel paid $15.3 billion to acquire Israel’s Mobileye NV, which supplies sensors for self-driving cars.