Hyundai Motor's 2015 Genesis luxury sedan is brimming with semiconductors that do everything from automatic braking to detecting blind spots. Chips pop open the trunk when they sense the owner's arms are full and sniff for carbon dioxide to determine if the cabin needs more fresh air. The companies that pioneered semiconductors for use in computers and phones produce few of the thousands of microprocessors in the Genesis. Intel contributed only a handful, and Qualcomm just one chipset; Nvidia chips don't even make the list.
展开▼
