NXP Launches New S32K5 Series Automotive MCU with Embedded MRAM Memory

NXP announced the launch of the new S32K5 series automotive MCU, the automotive industry's first 16nm FinFET MCU with embedded magnetic RAM (MRAM). The S32K5 MCU series will expand the NXP CoreRide platform with pre-integrated regional and electrified system solutions to enable scalable software-defined vehicle (SDV) architectures.

NXP's new S32K5 series features an Arm Cortex CPU core running at up to 800 MHz and provides energy-efficient application performance through a 16nm FinFET process. The S32K5 is also equipped with a dedicated eIQ Neutron neural processing unit (NPU), NXP's scalable machine learning accelerator that enables machine learning algorithms to perform energy-efficient, real-time processing of sensor data at the edge of the vehicle.