On-board storage requirements are driven by the continuously changing infotainment systems and other vehicle advancements such as ADAS and autonomous cars.

Some car buyers consider technological packages in automobiles as greater buying motivators than the engine and other mechanical components.

In the last 20 years or so, we have seen a transition from cars with minimal electronic content, to electric and hybrid drivetrains with dozens of independent computers controlling everything from the door locks to the battery, and from climate control to engine, suspension, and control systems used for reliability and safety.

The high volume of data generated from these systems is placing greater focus on storage strategies.

Of particular importance is local on-board storage in the vehicle. The need for high capacity storage optimised for the rigorous demands of the automotive environment promises to only accelerate, as the breadth and complexity of the software-driven features in cars evolve. Such a trend will become even more pronounced, as more cars are connected to the Internet, and in particular, we move closer to transitioning to semi-autonomous and autonomous drive.

Soon, more advanced autonomous vehicles may have on-board local storage capacity needs of one terabyte or higher.

To date, infotainment and navigation have been major drivers of the need for high-performance automobile computing systems and in-vehicle storage.

As the advancement of these systems continue, it raises the question of what will happen to local storage requirements as these systems connect to smartphones and the cloud.

In recent years, the evolution of these systems drove several shifts in storage demands, first from optical drives (mostly for map data) to flash memory card-based storage systems, then to higher capacities of flash storage in the form embedded flash drives (EFDs) inside of these systems for bigger data collections and higher-definition content.

By: DocMemory
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