Speaker

Satoru Taniguchi

Semiconductor Strategy Project GM - Toyota Motor / Member of the Board - MIRISE Technologies / R&D GM - Advanced SoC Research for Automotive

Biography

Mr. Satoru Taniguchi has been serving as a Project general manager of semiconductor strategy planning at Toyota. He also has been a Member of board at MIRISE Technologies Co. which is semiconductor research company funded by Denso and Toyota since .

Mr. Taniguchi received a Master degree in Crystalline Material Science from the Nagoya University.

Mr. Taniguchi joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 1990. He was responsible for a variety of important area as the development of electronics control system for engine management, airbag control and body electronics. He also assumed responsibilities for the evaluation engineering and research and development management of overall electronics area of Toyota. One of his notable achievements is the design of electronics/electric platform architecture for Toyota vehicles. It support and contributes to Toyota’s next generation vehicle’s design as TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture).

Mr. Taniguchi also has spent several years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, leading a group of electronics engineers at Toyota Technical Center USA for the design of the electronics system used in the vehicles for the US market.

Mr. Taniguchi led the development of conceptual vehicles, i-Real, 1/X and Rin those were introduced at Tokyo Motor Show 2007. He also led the concept of monument design for Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 which Toyota was a main sponsor.

Mr. Taniguchi was a president & CEO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center Co. LTD in both Japan and US from 2015 to 2017. He led V2X communication, data pipeline technology and data analysis research for connected vehicles. Mr. Taniguchi was assigned as a Vice Unit Chief of SIP-adus (Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program Automated Driving for Universal Services) from Cabinet office as a leader of cyber security research till 2017.

Mr. Taniguchi was served Vice President and Head of Automated Driving Core Technology at Toyota Research Institute - Advanced Development (TRI-AD) till 2020.

Mr. Taniguchi was a General Manager of E/E architecture development division at Toyota till 2024. He led E/E architecture design, E/E system vehicle packaging and cyber security development.

Talk(s)

5:04 PM

Fireside chat: Essential vehicle technologies for the software-defined vehicle (SDV) Era, Chiplet SoC on automotive chiplets

In recent years, automobiles are expected not only to fulfill their standalone functions such as driving and transporting, but also to expand their value through integration with social systems.

To realize this, it is essential to adopt advanced technologies such as connected features, utilization of AI, function updates and additions via OTA (Over-the-Air), and functional integration to synchronize several systems. Software leads this evolution to change the vehicle’s design and development, known as Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs).

In SDV development, software development is of course crucial, but so are the design of E/E architecture and semiconductors.
Especially in semiconductors, to support integrated control systems and the evolution of AI models, advancements in communication performance, computing power, and memory capacity are required.
At the same time, customers also demand simpler and more cost-reasonable vehicles, which calls for SoCs with broader scalability than ever before.

However, scaling up SoCs functions and performance challenges such as increased development volume, impact on manufacturing quality due to chip size, and balancing cost and volume to ensure scalability.
We think Chiplet SoC would be one of the solutions to address these issues.

In Japan, six OEMs, three Tier 1 suppliers, and five semiconductor-related companies have established ASRA (Advanced SoC Research for Automotive) to study specifications for automotive Chiplets.

On the day of ITF Japan 2025, I hope to share ASRA’s motivations and discuss the importance of future industry standardization.