Automotive memory and storage solutions

For more than 30 years and trillions of miles, Micron has been committed to bringing high-performance memory and storage technology to the automotive industry.

Drivers in automotive memory and storage

Micron has continuously played a pivotal role in delivering ultimate automotive data storage and memory components for more than 30 years.

In an evolving era of autonomous driving and electrification, vehicles must have innovative solutions to deliver the very best and safest experience.

From quality assurance to pioneering technology, with Micron, you know you’re getting the best.

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New research shows our cars need more memory than a rocket

As cars become more intelligent and software-driven, memory and storage are the building blocks needed to enable future-looking innovations. In the recent Micron-commissioned report, “Bits, bytes, and the connected car,” S&P Global Mobility provides a number of highlights into one of the fastest-growing segments in the semiconductor industry.

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Automotive megatrends and their impact on memory and storage

The five automotive megatrends — autonomous, electrification, enriched cabins, connectivity and zonal architectures — are significantly transforming the automotive industry, especially car memory and storage requirements.

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DRAM in safety critical automobile systems

Micron’s comprehensive automotive memory and data storage portfolio enables transformative applications.

DRAM for automotive safety

First to functional safety

Micron leads the industry with ISO 26262 ASIL-D certification for product and process, helping reduce complexity and cost for automotive manufacturers. Learn about the evolution of functional safety and ISO 26262 in our new white paper.

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Data-intensive automotive applications require advanced car memory and data storage

Micron’s products are paving the way for advanced automotive applications and capabilities that require the highest memory and storage performance in the most demanding environments.

Our industry-leading portfolio addresses the unique requirements of today's — and tomorrow's — most data-intensive automotive applications. These applications enable such technologies as advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles, enriched cabins, connected cars and shared vehicles.

Our automotive memory and storage products

Micron has one of the largest portfolios of automotive-compliant memory and car data storage solutions, including Micron automotive LPDRAM memory, perfect for instrument cluster, infotainment and ADAS solutions.

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DDR3 is a great solution for compute and embedded systems.

Automotive applications require memory to push the envelope in bandwidth, latency and power. Our SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4 deliver the requisite performance and more.

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Automotive Solutions: Our fully managed e.MMC memory with built-in controller and interface get to market quickly.

Easy integration, development and design gets you to market faster. Our fully managed e.MMC memory with built-in controller and interface helps you optimize your storage requirements while getting your product to market quickly.

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Our automotive LPDDR memory solutions are perfect for instrument cluster, infotainment and ADAS solutions.

Built to consume less power without sacrificing performance, our automotive LPDDR, LPDDR2, LPDDR4 and LPDDR5 memory solutions are perfect for instrument cluster, infotainment and ADAS solutions.

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Industrial IOT an Automotive Solutions: NAND based MCP package with 162-ball configuration

Automotive applications require a small automotive-optimized memory footprint for space constrained applications. Our automotive qualified multichip package solutions deliver the right combination of performance, size, and extended temperature range support.

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Solution pages - Parallel Nor, 64-ball FBGA configuration

Automotive memory must function in extreme environments. Our NOR flash memory offers a high-quality, small-footprint package with execute-in-place capabilities for engine control units and other applications that demand the highest-reliability with lightning-fast boot times.

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Automotive Solutions - SLC NAND Flash memory

Often high performance storage is required in a small footprint. Our SLC NAND flash memory is ideal for high-performance, low-power, high-bandwidth and small form factor automotive applications.

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The growing demand for storage in the automotive environment requires rugged designs, increased temperature ranges and robust data protection features that only automotive SSDs can deliver.

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Automotive Solutions: UFS devices deliver fast data access and processing that bring infotainment systems to life.

Infotainment systems of next-generation connected vehicles employ multiple high-resolution displays with human machine interfaces that are based on artificial intelligence. Micron’s UFS devices deliver the fast data access and processing that bring these systems to life.

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Frequently asked questions

How is AI used in the automotive industry?

Car manufacturers use artificial intelligence in nearly all areas of the automotive industry — from design improvements and manufacturing processes to the movement of autonomous cars in traffic.

Do cars use memory and storage?

Memory is a very important element enabling connectivity and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) that require fast, resilient, on-board memory to operate.

Systems like navigation consoles and infotainment require their own memory as they need to quickly and reliably store code, take data, process it, and output data – in both shock resistant and wide temperature range environments.

What are the types of memory used in a car?

The basic types of memory and storage used in automotive solutions are:

DRAM
LPDRAM
NOR
NAND
eMMC
UFS
NVMe

What is functional safety?

Functional safety is the absence of unreasonable risk due to hazards caused by failures or unintended behaviors of electrical and electronic systems.

To achieve this high degree of accuracy – essential for public safety – the datasets required to generate inferences are enormous, requiring substantial compute, memory and storage resources.

What is Micron SAFER memory?

Micron introduced SAFER automotive memory, which provides unique capabilities for functional safety through engineering leadership and random and systematic fault coverage.

This Micron SAFER framework provides guidance for considering breakthrough automotive memory solutions and support.

We know automotive memory and storage. We've been doing it for more than 30 years. If you need information and insight, we've got it. Here's some of our latest.

WHITE PAPER

Automotive Megatrends and Their Impacts on Memory and Storage

The five automotive megatrends — autonomous, electrification, enriched cabins, connectivity and zonal architectures — are transforming the automotive industry with a significant impact on memory and storage requirements for use in vehicles. Read about the impact of the megatrends in our new white paper.

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Automotive Memory: Quality vs. Functional Safety and Why It Matters

This blog is focused on two automotive safety concepts: quality and functional safety. Quality refers to the fundamental design of the product and the test and yield processes that ensure the product can achieve as close to zero defects as possible. Functional safety focuses on two aspects: systematic and random fault coverage.

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DRAM in Safety Critical Automotive Systems

This white paper details the evolution of automotive functional safety and explains how Micron's LPDDR5 SDRAM product family with ISO 26262 compliance meets the safety-critical requirements of today's high-tech automotive systems.