Renesas Dual-Core for your car
Automotive computing in manyways is similar to your personal computer, and the same inherent problems. On your PC it is good to have the OS isolated from the normal applications (especially the internet browser). Same thing in your car, you do not want the navigation and media player functions to be able to interfere or crash the control computer. This is why most cars have DOZENS of computers. Renesas has just announced the SH7776, a dual SH-4A cored CPU. One core for the information systems, and one for the control systems. They share a common memory set, but it is segmented to prevent any problems. Each core runs at a whopping 533MHz and can output almost 2000 MIPS.
Clearly thats not enough for Renesas, they through in a graphics core too, a PowerVR core with 3D Rendering.
Source: EEProduct Center
