Hyundai Mobis, Qualcomm to develop controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles

Hyundai Mobis will work together with Qualcomm to develop a controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles.

Hyundai Mobis President Cho Sung-hwan speaks about the company's vision during the CES 2023, which opened on Thursday in Las Vegas. [HYUNDAI MOBIS]

LAS VEGAS — Hyundai Mobis will work together with Qualcomm to develop a controller for Level 3 autonomous vehicles.

The announcement came on Thursday at the CES 2023 trade show, which opened an independent booth to showcase its major technologies for future mobility. Executives of the two companies held a meeting at the tech show to discuss the strategies, though specific details have not yet been declared.

“Under the cooperation, Mobis will develop an integrated autonomous driving controller scaling up to Level 3 utilizing the San Diego-based company’s chips,” said Kim Young-kwang, vice president of Hyundai Mobis’ business strategy team, on the sidelines of the CES 2023.

“The development will be completed in the first half of the year at the earliest.”

An integrated controller is an essential system for realizing Level 3 autonomous technology as it enables the efficient and easy process of adding new features and improving performance.

The cooperation comes as the auto parts maker has been redesigning its direction of future growth as a company specializing in mobility.

“To mark our new step forward, we are redefining our company's name Mobis. It now stands for Mobility Beyond Integrated Solution,” Hyundai Mobis President Cho Sung-hwan said during a media showcase Thursday.

“As a mobility platform provider, we want to modularize elemental technologies in various fields and provide integrated solutions that satisfy customer needs."

Hyundai Mobis' M.Vision TO [HYUNDAI MOBIS]

Mobis also demonstrated a concept purpose-built vehicle (PBV) during CES 2023, which the company believes to be what future mobility looks like.

The vehicle, which the company calls M.Vision TO, is an autonomous vehicle that extends freedom of movement including crab driving and zero-turn with 90 degrees rotating wheel.

Hyundai Mobis has been focusing to strengthen close cooperative relationships with various foreign companies in a bid to secure new technologies for future mobility.

It recently teamed up with Ottopia, an Israeli start-up, to jointly develop a teleoperation system for Level 4 autonomous vehicles or higher.

The attempt is part of the company's effort to lure global automakers as clients as 80 percent of its total sales come from solely Hyundai Motor and Kia.

“Orders from foreign companies have constantly been increasing, and we aim to generate 30 percent of our sales from foreign clients,” Kim said.

“We set a target of $3.75 billion of orders from overseas companies last year, and achieved that in the third quarter.”

BY SARAH CHEA [chea.sarah@joongang.co.kr]