Samsung Electronics has recently set up a new task force to develop chips for self-driving cars, a local news daily reported Sunday.



The decision came almost six months after the Korean tech giant launched a new separate team for automotive parts late last year under its chip business division.



Citing unnamed sources, the daily said the task force consists of researchers from the chip division’s system LSI unit that produces non-memory chips for mobile application processors and image sensors for cameras and TV displays.





BMW’s i3 compact that can be controlled by Samsung’s smartwatch Gear S2 is displayed at an exhibition booth during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. Samsung Electronics