this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
235 points (98.4% liked)

Technology

66015 readers
8178 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Today’s new cars come stuffed with some 1,000 to 3,000 semiconductor chips that help to control and coordinate everything from lowering windows and adjusting mirrors to deploying airbags, enabling collision avoidance systems, pairing phones with center consoles and displays, and coordinating navigation.

Seriously? Am I the only one thinking this could be done with less than 10 chips at most? For what the cost of the car is, you can easily run a normal off the shelf mobo with 8BG memory. Add in a few extra chips for analog control, etc, where does that number 1000-3000 come from? That is insane

[–] ricdeh 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe they mean every single silicon component on all of the boards. I can imagine that cars need lots of diodes and discrete transistors and such. But computer-wise, thousands would really be excessive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read that as

I can imagine that cars need lots of dildoes ...

[–] db2 1 points 1 week ago

That's only the Swastikars

load more comments (10 replies)