A large portion of the burden for reducing greenhouse gases is being handed off to makers of automotive chips and systems, which are being tasked to make vehicles drive further using less energy and with zero emissions…

Semiconductors will play a key role in all of this, both in electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines. And with different classes of electric and electronic systems in the car, there are opportunities for the technologies to be put to better use…

To be sure, the semiconductor industry plays a foundational role within the automotive industry to reduce the carbon footprint.

The interplay between systems, and understanding how to make efficiency gains is a significant challenge because so much with a system depends on other systems in the vehicle.
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