Storage chips penetrate into various aspects of automotive use

Since the second half of last year, the cold wind of weak demand for downstream consumer electronics has swept through the entire storage market, with losses, production cuts, and sharp declines in order volume becoming the main theme of the storage industry. Against this backdrop, the continuous shortage of automotive chips has brought a touch of warmth to storage companies, and also means that storage chips still have another potential.

With the acceleration of electrification, intelligence, networking, and sharing, the automotive industry is constantly transforming and upgrading. Automotive chips are constantly innovating, and vehicles need to process and store more video, voice, and other data information. As a result, storage chips are gradually infiltrating the automotive industry's "ecosystem".

At present, the types of storage chips that can be applied in the automotive chip field include DRAM, SRAM, EEPROM, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, FRAM, etc.

For example, volatile memory DRAM and SRAM, in the sense that DRAM is a Dynamic random-access memory, which is an internal memory that directly exchanges data with the CPU, called memory for short. Its processing speed is fast, but once the power is cut off, the stored data will be lost, and the data retention time is short; SRAM is a static memory with fast access speed and can store data without the need for a refresh circuit. In terms of price, SRAM is more expensive than DRAM; In terms of application, SRAM can be used in the automotive electronics field, while DRAM can be used in Infotainment, ADAS, Telematics, D-cluster, and other fields.