Intel announces new SoC solutions to dramatically reduce costs and accelerate electric vehicle innovation

     Globally, the high price of electric vehicles remains one of the biggest barriers to potential buyers placing orders. The main reason why electric vehicles are currently more expensive to manufacture than conventional fuel vehicles is the high cost of advanced battery and motor technology. The most recent solution on the market is to improve the efficiency of existing battery technology through vehicle-level energy savings, including improved integration with EV charging infrastructure. Today, these challenges can all be addressed with the latest OLEA U310 system-on-chip (SoC) released by Intel subsidiary Silicon Mobility. This next-generation technology can significantly improve the overall performance of electric vehicles, simplify the design and production process, and expand SoC services to ensure seamless operation across EV charging platforms.

     The new SoC is Silicon Mobility's first in the industry to offer a complete solution that integrates hardware and software. The OLEA U310 has been specifically designed to be combined with distributed software to meet the needs of power system control in electrical architectures. Based on a unique hybrid and heterogeneous architecture, a single OLEA 310 FPCU replaces up to six standard microcontrollers in a system portfolio to control inverters, motors, transmissions, DC-DC converters, and on-board charging in parallel. With the 310 FPCU, Oems and Tier 1 suppliers can simultaneously achieve real-time control of multiple different power and energy functions.

     In addition to the Bill of Materials (BoM) reduction, early data shows that for the same power, the use of the OLEA 310 can improve energy efficiency by 5%, reduce motor size by 25%, reduce cooling requirements by 35%, and reduce passive component size by 30 times compared to today's electric vehicles. Silicon Mobility's new solution enables electric vehicle manufacturers to design software-defined electric vehicles with superior performance, longer range, and potentially lower production costs because fewer components need to be integrated. This new solution, combined with Intel Automotive's already-launched line of AI-enhanced Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) SOCs, will drive the industry's transition to an all-electric and software-defined future.