The Tiny Tech That's *Really* Powering Electric Cars! | Lars Regers, NXP Semiconductors
Update: 2025-04-28
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In this episode of the Fully Charged Show Podcast, Imogen Bhogal sits down with Lars Reger, CTO of NXP Semiconductors, to explore the critical role that chips play in the electric vehicle revolution. With the average EV containing around 10,000 semiconductors - 10 times more than an combustion car, these tiny silicon components are doing some seriously heavy lifting — from power & energy management, control systems, security, connectivity to autonomous driving and increasing amounts of AI.
00:00 Introduction and a bit of context
02:36 Ad Break
02:52 NXP Semiconductors
05:04 An accident and a brain on shoes?!
14:48 Chips and rolling robots!
20:39 A global perspective
26:00 Avoiding another chip crisis
36:26 New oems are more efficient
38:46 Making AI more efficient
46:43 What ChatGPT can learn from Electric Cars
49:38 A huge convergence?
53:20 Just one wish
56:07 Concluding thoughts
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