Software engineers will love our automotive embedded MRAM, says NXP

Your future car will keep improving during its lifetime. Receiving updates over the air, it will perfect its safety features, get new personalization options for the dashboard layout or simply fix that annoying gap in the windshield wiper interval. As exciting as that sounds, however, you probably aren’t looking forward to having to delay your departure because your software-defined vehicle needs to update – again!

And you won’t have to, say NXP and TSMC. The Eindhoven-headquartered chipmaker and its manufacturing partner have announced the introduction of automotive processors equipped with embedded magnetoresistive random-access memory rather than flash. Thanks to MRAM’s much higher write speeds, updates will take mere seconds. And the emerging memory has plenty more to offer – also for software engineers and architects.