indie Semiconductor, Inc. announced a strategic investment in Expedera Inc. The partnership will deliver customized artificial intelligence (AI) enabled processing capabilities for sensing solutions targeting Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and includes a commercial agreement to integrate customized Expedera Origin NPU processing solutions into future indie products. According to S&P Mobility, by 2029 over 50% of vehicles will incorporate Level 2 and above driver automation capabilities, representing a $28 billion ADAS semiconductor opportunity. Deployment of these ADAS systems - driven by safety regulation and New Car Assessment Programs (NCAP) - mandates high performance, power efficient AI-based object detection and perception processing to enable functions including Lane Keep Assist (LKA), Blind Spot Detection (BSD), Automated Emergency Braking (AEB) and Driver and Occupant Monitoring (DMS/OMS).

Expedera?s Origin NPU solutions will enhance indie?s growing multi-modal ADAS silicon and software portfolio with advanced Neural Network (NN) processing capabilities. Origin?s unique packet-based architecture brings deterministic performance and efficient power, area and memory resource utilization to on-chip NN processing compared to typical layer-based approaches. The partnership will deliver scalable NPU single-core performance capabilities to indie?s portfolio over 100 TOPS.