Imagination gets an automotive chiplet story - Jon Peddie Research

Imagination Technologies has contributed its DXS automotive GPU intellectual property (IP) to the European CHASSIS program’s new Automotive Base Die, a 5nm chiplet project aimed at enabling open and s... Read original →

Imagination’s integration of its ASIL-B-certified DXS GPU IP into CHASSIS’s 5nm Automotive Base Die signals a pivotal shift from monolithic SoCs to UCIe-based chiplet architectures in automotive compute. Technically, this accelerates EDA and advanced packaging ecosystems toward heterogeneous integration, pressuring EUV cost models for automotive nodes. Regulatory-wise, while ASIL-B suffices for L2+ systems, the EU Chips Act’s localization mandates raise barriers for non-European IP vendors. Competitively, ARM and Synopsys will likely fast-track UCIe-compliant automotive GPUs, while NVIDIA may double down on vertical integration via its Thor platform to counter open-chiplet disruption. Within 18 months, if CHASSIS validates multi-vendor chiplet interoperability, global Tier 1s could pivot procurement from locked-in IPs to plug-and-play modules—fundamentally rewiring the automotive semiconductor value chain.