MERCEDES-BENZ ANNOUNCES REFERENCE DESIGN COLLABORATION WITH ATHOS SILICON
SANTA CLARA, CA — Mercedes-Benz today announced a strategic investment in and collaboration with Athos Silicon to accelerate the future of autonomous computing.
What began as breakthrough chiplet research inside Mercedes-Benz R&D has now evolved into Athos Silicon's mSoC™ platform, delivering modular performance scaling, faster innovation cycles, and safety-by-design principles for next-generation autonomous systems.
By spinning off this technology in Athos Silicon, we can more efficiently extend mSoC™ beyond automotive into broader autonomy applications like robotics, drones and aerospace. This benefits the overall autonomy industry and Athos Silicon is grateful to Mercedes-Benz for having recognized that and helping to bring this vision to life.
“Mercedes-Benz continuously explores technologies that can advance safety, performance and automated driving. Open chiplet approaches—such as UCIe™—show promise for future high-performance compute architectures. Athos Silicon, an independent company with roots in research initiated at Mercedes-Benz in 2020, will pursue its own path to develop these ideas for broader industry use.”
— Markus Schäfer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Chief Technology Officer
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About Athos Silicon
Athos Silicon, founded in 2025, is building the world's first functionally safe chiplet-based compute platform for real-time autonomy in robotics, automotive, and avionics. Its Multiple Systems on Chip (mSoC™) architecture enables modular scaling of compute resources with safety, determinism, and power efficiency. mSoC™ unlocks a new era of trusted, certifiable autonomy.