OmniPHY

OmniPHY is the American producer of network technologies for cars. The company calls itself the pioneer in the field of high-speed automobile Ethernet-networks, developing 15 families of IP technologies, including standards 100BASE-T1 and 1000BASE-T1.

History

2018: NXP purchased OmniPHY

At the beginning of September, 2018 the semiconductor producer NXP Semiconductors announced OmniPHY acquisition, but did not set the price of purchase. It is supposed that this transaction will accelerate implementation of automobile Ethernet-solutions by car makers how they actively develop technologies of pilotless driving.

NXP consider that merger of OmniPHY will contribute to the development of self-driving motor transport and automobile communications. OmniPHY is just concentrated on the automobile Ethernet-technology allowing to transfer data so quickly as far as it is necessary for machines without drivers for interaction among themselves and with road infrastructure.

NXP purchased the developer of automobile Ethernet

NXP before began to cooperate with OmniPHY and even before acquisition of the company started implementation of standard 1000BASE-T1 Ethernet automotive industry. Now the company hopes that purchase will allow it to offer car makers "next generation" of solutions for data transmission.

One of the most annoying questions during an era of pilotless cars is in how quickly to transfer data around cars — the chief executive of the Strategy Analytics Global Automotive Practice direction of NXP company Ian Riches says. — Cameras and displays will increase the number of high-speed connections in the machine to 150 million by 2020, and to the 2030th the systems of unmanned vehicles will lead up to 1.1 billion connections to the active growth of this indicator.

NXP consider that the new generation of cars will be equipped with eight or more cameras, the radar of high resolution, a lidar and V2X-communications therefore high-speed networks will be required.^[1]

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