Mobileye Achieves First Commercial Win for Its Radar in Autonomous Driving System

4 July, 2025

The radar was originally developed to provide redundancy for the camera-based driving system, but in the current deal, it will likely serve as the customer's primary sensing solution.

After seven years of development, Mobileye has secured the first commercial win for its imaging radar system: a major global automaker has selected the radar to serve as a core component in its autonomous driving platform. The decision follows over a year of comparative evaluations, in which the system competed head-to-head with rival technologies. The customer plans to integrate the radar into an SAE Level 3 autonomous driving system starting in 2028. This system will support hands-free driving on highways, with the ability to detect vehicles, objects, obstacles, and pedestrians.

Mobileye originally began developing the radar in 2018 with the goal of providing redundancy for its camera-based autonomous driving system. Most traditional automotive radars offer data about object distance, relative velocity, and horizontal positioning. However, Mobileye’s radar belongs to a new class of 4D imaging radars, which capture that same data in both horizontal and vertical planes, enabling a three-dimensional understanding of the environment over time.

The system is built around a radar-on-chip (SoC) processor developed entirely in-house by Mobileye, capable of delivering up to 11 TOPS of compute. It features a Massive MIMO-based transmit-and-receive architecture implemented using proprietary RFIC components. These components handle signal transmission and reception, convert the analog signals into digital form, and send the data to the radar’s main processor. The system supports more than 1,500 virtual channels and operates at a rate of 20 frames per second. The radar antenna provides a wide 170-degree field of view and sub-0.5-degree angular resolution.

From Backup Sensor to Central Sensing System

Mobileye’s radar is designed to serve three core functions in the vehicle: ensuring reliable sensing in poor environmental conditions that impair camera performance, enriching the scene understanding provided by cameras, and acting as a full fallback system in case of a camera failure. In effect, the radar is capable of replicating all camera-based functions to ensure uninterrupted autonomous driving.

According to the company, the radar can detect small objects at safe distances even when the vehicle is traveling at speeds of up to 130 km/h (about 81 mph). In such scenarios, the radar can identify pedestrians and cyclists at a range of around 315 meters, and even smaller hazardous obstacles at distances of approximately 250 meters.

Mobileye is currently traded on Nasdaq with a market capitalization of roughly $12 billion.

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