Apple Car: we know the name of the LiDAR system supplier

According to the Economic Daily News website, the Taiwanese company Guangda would be in charge of the assembly of the LiDAR sensor of the Apple Car (or project Titan). Even if the level of progress of the Titan project is still widely debated, the tests of the driving system currently carried out on production vehicles confirm that Apple is still on the bridge (Apple has even recently increased the number of drivers of the vehicles of test). These driving systems are precisely equipped with one or more LiDARs; does this mean that Guangda would already be in charge of manufacturing LiDARs for test vehicles? No one currently knows. In addition, the Apple Car LiDAR components would be supplied by Lumentum and Win Semiconductors, and it should be noted that this trio of suppliers (Guangda, Lumentum, win Semiconductors) already manufactures iPhone LiDARs.

It should be noted that most manufacturers of autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles have chosen LiDAR in order to improve the system for detecting obstacles or elements located in the direct environment of the road or the vehicle. Only Tesla chose another path and favored the use of cameras and image analysis AI, a choice today under fire from critics after a series of accidents resulting in a failure of the Autopilot system. of Tesla.