Vehicle electrical/electronic architectures (EEA) come in three main types – decentralized, domain, and zonal – and it remains to be seen which one of them will prevail eventually or whether they will continue to develop in parallel, according to Chung Yu Huang, senior vice president and special assistant to chairman of Pegatron.

Japan’s largest display manufacturer Japan Display Inc (JDI) will produce free-shape OLED displays for car uses, and its eLEAP technology brings out higher brightness and longer lifetime than traditional OLED display, according to JDI’s AutoTech business unit head Seiichi Fukunaga.

Passive component makers have seen their commodity MLCC and chip resistor inventory swell since the second half of this year, as a result of sluggish demand for consumer electronics products, and they are eyeing automotive applications as growth driver, according to industry sources.