Infineon Details RISC-V for Automotive Zone Controllers

At Hot Chips 2026, Infineon presented on using RISC-V for automotive zone controllers. The company argued for a path where zone controllers handle local, latency-sensitive tasks while central computers manage global strategies. Infineon stated RISC-V's open ISA avoids IP lock-in but stressed that automotive success depends on qualified toolchains, SoC architecture, and ecosystem enablement, not just the instruction set.