Valens Semiconductor and onsemi Team Up on Cost-Optimized 3MP A-PHY Automotive Sensor

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Valens Semiconductor announced a collaboration with onsemi to develop a cost-optimized integrated sensor for high-volume 3-megapixel automotive camera applications, based on the MIPI A-PHY standard. Under the agreement, Valens will work with onsemi on the cost-optimized A-PHY offering that can be integrated into onsemi's image sensors, giving OEMs and Tier 1s a faster path to A-PHY. Valens CEO Yoram Salinger called the move a major milestone for the company, for MIPI A-PHY and for the automotive ecosystem as a whole, noting the integrated 3MP offering complements Valens' existing solutions and brings A-PHY to a much broader range of use cases. Ahmed Salem, Vice President and General Manager of the Intelligent Sensing Group at onsemi, said customer interest makes clear that MIPI A-PHY represents a significant business opportunity and that the collaboration helps enable a more streamlined camera architecture that reduces component count. The majority of automotive image sensors target the 1-3MP range, and as OEMs migrate toward higher resolutions, a 3MP offering addresses both a large established market and a growing upgrade opportunity. MIPI A-PHY is the first standard in the automotive industry for high-speed sensor connectivity, and Valens says it offers the first chipsets on the market to comply with the standard and the first to achieve design wins with multiple OEMs.

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