Toshiba Readies Plant to Make Chips for Driver-Assist Systems

Next year Toshiba Corp. will begin supplying computer microchips designed to analyze images from vehicle-mounted cameras, The Nikkei reports.

The Toshiba chips will initially be supplied to Denso Corp. and used in driver-assist systems supplied to Toyota Motor Corp.

The company's current-generation devices have 10 times the resolution of Toshiba's earlier image recognition chips, making them more accurate In bad weather and other poor visibility conditions, according to The Nikkei.

The newspaper says Toshiba hopes to beat such competitors as Mobileye, Renesas and Texas Instruments to market as auto industry demand grows for imaging systems.