Simona Almajan, NXP Semiconductors Romania: “Complexity is the biggest challenge in today’s cars”

“The electric vehicle market represents about 10 percent of the total number of vehicles globally, and estimates show that this share will reach 60 percent in 2030. These ambitious predictions are based on the technological advance that we see today, and the companies in the automotive supply chain work on the development of technologies for electric cars,” Simona Almajan, Country Manager, NXP Semiconductors Romania said during Green Mobility Forum organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest.

“Complexity is the biggest challenge in today’s cars. This complexity is not sustainable and that is why we are working on changing the architecture of the machines. We are talking about software-defined vehicles, in which the functionalities will be implemented in software.

We must define software architectures that are scalable and modular, we must consider that the machines of the future will be connected to the cloud and will receive over-the-air software updates. This is where the security component comes in and we must make sure that the data is protected and that we protect ourselves against vulnerabilities.

Players in the automotive industry are currently also working on battery management systems for electric vehicles.”

In the year 2000, NXP Romania was established in a lab at University Politechnica Bucharest as part of Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS). SPS spun off to become Freescale Semiconductor in 2004 and then merged with NXP Semiconductors in 2015. Along the way its Romanian team grew from five to 500 team members, and from a university lab to a new facility known as Campus 6.1.

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