Mobileye CEO is recognized for his industry-leading contributions to advanced driving assistance systems and other autonomous driving solutions.

By Brian Blum, Israel21c

Mobileye founder and CEO Prof. Amnon Shashua was honored by the Automotive Hall of Fame with the organization’s Mobility Innovator Award in Detroit’s Automotive Hall of Fame on July 21.

The Automotive Hall of Fame was established in 1939 to perpetuate the accomplishments of the early automotive pioneers including W.O. Bentley, David D. Buick, Louis Chevrolet, Walter P. Chrysler, André Citroën, Enzo Ferrari, Soichiro Honda, Armand Peugeot, Ferdinand Porsche, Louis Renault and Ratan Tata.

The Mobility Innovator Award, introduced in 2021, seeks to recognize “the outstanding work individuals have accomplished introducing new technologies and services that are redefining mobility.”

Shashua’s work with Mobileye certainly fits the bill.

He founded Mobileye in 1999 when “no one in the automotive industry believed that a single front-facing camera could achieve the level of performance and robustness needed for a system that would prevent or mitigate collisions,” Shashua said at the time.

Mobileye was acquired by Intel in 2017 for $15.3 billion. The Silicon Valley chipmaker was seeking a way into the autonomous driving market, which has since become Mobileye’s main focus.

Intel – through Mobileye – now competes directly with Apple, Waymo, Tesla and others. Intel announced at the end of last year that it planned to take Mobileye public in 2022 at an estimated $50 billion valuation.

“Amnon’s biggest contribution to the automotive industry was laying the groundwork for a safer, greener and data-driven future – decades before such a vision would be deemed anything but a fantasy,” Mobileye’s chief legal officer Liz Cohen-Yerushalmi said.

“I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that he has revolutionized the automotive industry forever,” she declared.

Shashua started his career at Hebrew University, where he is still active in the computer science department.

He has racked up a series of industry citations, including being named last year as Automotive Driving Executive of the Year by Automotive News.

In addition to being CEO of Mobileye and a senior vice president at Intel, he also cofounded OrCam Technologies, which develops wearable devices to assist the visually and hearing impaired; AI21 Labs, which uses artificial intelligence to improve the way we read and write; and One Zero Digital Bank.

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News comes on the back of Intel’s announcement to take Mobileye public in a deal that could value the Israeli unit at more than $50 billion.

By James Spiro, CTech

Mobileye has announced that it is adding Paris, France, to its autonomous vehicle testing program and adding its autonomous on-demand service to the city in collaboration with RAPT Group, the world’s third-largest public transportation operator. The news comes on the back of Intel‘s announcement to take Mobileye public in a deal that could value the Israeli unit at more than $50 billion.

“Autonomously driving the roads of Paris is yet another milestone on the way to realizing our vision of self-driving inclusive mobility,” said Johann Jungwirth, vice president of mobility-as-a-service at Mobileye. “We are happy to have not only gained the testing permit, but also strong partners in Paris.”

Mobileye’s permit allows the company to drive its autonomous robotaxis across the streets of Paris. The city, with complex road systems and high volumes of pedestrians and traffic, can pose challenges for human drivers and AVs in the best of times. Passengers who are part of the pilot will be some of the first people in the world to ride in a Mobileye AV and hail a robotaxi using the Moovit app (also owned by Intel) at the center of Mobileye’s MoovitAV consumer ridesharing service.

The collaboration with RATP will provide employees from Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann the ability to order or schedule a ride to work using the Moovit app four days a week.

“Urban mobility is inseparable from the issues of our time and must enable us to meet the challenges of the sustainable city,” said Alexandre Liot, managing director of Galeries Lafayette Haussmann. “Today it is essential to think about improving and transforming mobility, to prepare the future of city centers and allow Paris to continue its attractiveness. Therefore, as the French leader of department stores, we are proud to join forces with Mobileye and the RATP Group to participate in this innovative project which reflects on the transport of tomorrow.”

Côme Berbain, director of Innovation for RATP Group, added: “As a leading operator of autonomous mobility, we are very happy to offer to our client Galeries Lafayette a new mobility service by associating our know-how with Mobileye. This is an opportunity for the RATP Group to test a new use case, an autonomous car service for companies, but also to test the vehicle’s autonomous technology for possible integration on other transport modes such as a bus or minibus.”

The news that Mobileye will be extending its services to Paris follows the announcement that the company was testing its cars in New York City earlier this year, as well as test fleets in Detroit, Tokyo, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, China, and Munich which is planned for 2022. Moovit was acquired by Intel in 2020 and serves one billion passengers in more than 112 countries. Its consumer and transportation network will be used by Intel for Mobileye’s commercial driverless ride-hailing service.

Galeries Lafayette is a French department store offering premium luxury brands in fashion and accessories, decoration, food, and catering. RATP Group facilitates 16 million daily trips and is one of the largest urban transport operators in the world. For over 70 years, RATP has operated one of the world’s densest multimodal networks in Île-de-France.

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Germany recently enacted a law allowing for driverless vehicles on the roads, making it perfect for early-rider testing.

By Naama Barak, Israel21c

Driverless robotaxis are set to hit the streets of Munich next year, courtesy of Israeli autonomous-driving technology giant Mobileye and partners.

Plans for the robotaxi service were recently unveiled at the IAA Mobility Conference in Munich. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and Sixt SE Co-CEO Alexander Sixt announced the collaboration, which will see riders being able to hail a driverless cab using either the Sixt app or Moovit app.

Intel acquired Mobileye for a record sum of $15.3 billion in 2017, and purchased Moovit for approximately $900 million last year. Sixt, meanwhile, is an international mobility services provider headquartered in Germany.

The CEOs also unveiled the vehicles themselves, marking the first time Mobileye has displayed its fully integrated self-driving system in a vehicle to be used for commercial ride-hailing services.

Germany recently enacted a law that allows for driverless vehicles on the roads, enabling the robotaxis to begin early-rider testing in Munich next year. Following the tests and pending regulatory approval, the fleet will move on to commercial operations.

“With strong logistics and operational partners like Sixt, Mobileye can bring the promise of full autonomy to life in cities around the world,” says Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua.“We’re delighted that Germany is a first mover.”

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Technology giant Intel announced that its R&D researchers in Haifa developed its highest performance laptop processor ever.

By: World Israel News

According to Intel, its eighth generation “Core i9” processor is the highest-performance model it has ever developed for a laptop. Its Haifa-based team led the development of the new generation of processors.

The R&D team in Haifa has a number of previous laurels to its credit as well. In 2016, Intel-Haifa developed the “Kaby Lake” processor which was at the time considered the strongest and fastest ever made for desktop computers. The “Kaby Lake” has proven to be a big hit as a gaming processor. Intel says that as the PC gaming industry grows, new processors will provide desktop-like performance for laptops.

Intel also announced that its researchers are working to provide 360 degree video content and virtual reality to fulfill the need for higher performance in both desktop and laptop computers.

Intel began operations in Israel in 1974 and currently employs about 10,000 workers in its Kiryat Gat production center. Intel also operates R&D centers in Haifa, Jerusalem, Petach Tikva and Yakum. The research center in Haifa is Intel’s largest outside the United States.

Last year, Intel purchased the Jerusalem-based Mobileye driver assistance systems for $15.3, which was the largest acquisition ever for an Israeli tech company.

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Intel’s purchase of Mobileye is the biggest acquisition of an Israeli high-tech company to date.

Intel, one of the world’s biggest technology conglomerates, has confirmed reports that it is purchasing Mobileye, a leader in autonomous driving technology, for $15.3 billion.

This would be the biggest exit in the history of Israeli hi-tech, which until now were NDS, acquired by  Cisco for $5 billion, and Chromatis, purchased by Lucent for $4.5 billion.

“Israeli genius, Israeli pride,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Facebook. “This deal proves in a dramatic fashion that our vision is being realized. Israel is becoming a global technology center — not only in cyber, but also in the automotive realm.”

Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based company, was founded in 1999 by Prof. Amnon Shashua of the Hebrew University, and Ziv Aviram, with the goal of lessening vehicular injuries and deaths. Shashua is the company’s CTO; Aviram, who has a business background, is the CEO.

The startup company develops driver assistance systems, including cameras and sensors, and is considered one of the leading developers of automated car technology. The company’s technologies are used by many of the world’s leading automobile manufacturers as they look for ways to effectively complete with Google, Apple and Telsa, all of which are developing autonomous vehicle technologies.

“By pooling together our infrastructure and resources, we can enhance and accelerate our combined know-how in the areas of mapping, virtual driving, simulators, development tool chains, hardware, data centers and high-performance computing platforms,” Amiram stated.

The deal is expected to close within nine months, according to Intel. Aviram told Netanyahu, who called to congratulate him, that the center of the company’s operations would remain in Israel, that the company would build a global development center in the country and that it would be responsible for Intel’s international activity regarding autonomous vehicles.

“This acquisition is a great step forward for our shareholders, the automotive industry and consumers,” Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO, said in a statement. “Intel provides critical foundational technologies for autonomous driving including plotting the car’s path and making real-time driving decisions. Mobileye brings the industry’s best automotive-grade computer vision and strong momentum with automakers and suppliers. Together, we can accelerate the future of autonomous driving with improved performance in a cloud-to-car solution at a lower cost for automakers.”

Last July, Intel, the BMW Group and Mobileye announced the creation of a joint task force to bring fully automated driving into full-scale production by 2021.

By: Yoni Ariel/TPS and World Israel News Staff

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Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based global leader in the development of vision technology for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving, has installed its collision avoidance system on 4,500 cars in New York City.

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