Toyota acquires Fujitsu Sky to accelerate the development of driverless technology

At present, Toyota Motor is actively developing driverless cars, and is preparing to produce results around 2020. As a Toyota's shackles and parts suppliers for many years, Denso is naturally expected to be high.

Denso, Japan's top supplier of auto parts, announced on September 9 that it has acquired Fujitsu Ten, a radar system manufacturing and driverless system development company of Fujitsu.

Fujitsu Sky was previously held by Fujitsu, Toyota and Denso, which accounted for 55%, 35% and 10% respectively. Denso’s acquisition of 41% of Fujitsu’s shares increased to 51%. The transaction amount. The shareholding structure change will be completed after the end of FY2016 (March 2017).

Toyota supplier Denso acquires Fujitsu Sky to accelerate the development of driverless technology

Chart: Fujitsu Ten's shareholding structure change plan (from Denso official website)

At present, Fujitsu Tian has tens of thousands of employees worldwide, with sales of 363.3 billion yen (about 23.5 billion yuan) in fiscal year 2015. The fascinating figures are behind the rising operating costs. The company is in urgent need of finding new growth points. .

In terms of Denso, we are currently vigorously developing autopilot-related technologies, and we are eager to reinforce the existing technical strength. So the two hit it off and we have this acquisition. In the future, Denso will cooperate with Fujitsu Tian to develop electronic control units, millimeter wave radar, auxiliary/unmanned technology and other electronic devices.

Toyota supplier Denso acquires Fujitsu Sky to accelerate the development of driverless technology

Denso is so eager to make a difference in the unmanned field, analysts believe that this is related to its parent company Toyota.

At present, Toyota Motor is actively developing driverless cars, and is preparing to produce results around 2020. As a Toyota's shackles and parts suppliers for many years, Denso is naturally expected to be high. In recent years, Denso has been promoting Toyota in the field of driver assistance systems, but there has been a gap in intimate relationships: last year's new Corolla model bypassed Denso, using the more advanced "accident prevention system" provided by Continental. ". This is undoubtedly a good start, let the electric equipment clear and realize the importance of strengthening the development of automatic (assisted) driving technology, only to be able to compete against the strong competitors - Germany (and Bosch).

The acquisition of Fujitsu Sky is just one step. Previously, Denso also invested in Morpho Inc., a Tokyo-based image recognition technology company, to strengthen its competitiveness in the field of environmental identification. In April this year, together with Japan Electric Co., Ltd. (NEC) jointly developed a micro-controller for the automatic driving system. In May, adas company was established in Germany to develop image recognition technology...

I have also seen some results. Recently, it has been reported that Denso has developed a technology that uses a single-eye camera to instantly recognize a person’s body orientation, height, and distance from a car in just 56 milliseconds. Adas.

Of course, the world's major auto parts suppliers have already deployed in the driverless field and stimulated Denso. Not long ago, Volvo announced that it has cooperated with the Swedish car seat belt and airbag supplier Autoliv to develop driverless software. The car supplier Delphi also invested heavily in developing a fully automated driving system solution with Mobileye...

Yes, Denso is accelerating its actions to keep up with the pace of other top suppliers; at the same time, competition in this area will become increasingly fierce.

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