It is a Disruptive World with Exponential Development: Expected Trends in Embedded Systems, with a Special Focus on the Automotive Industry and Its Likely Effects on Industry and Society

In this talk, I'll argue that we need to change our way of thinking drastically and Europe needs to catch up urgently those in the world who have already started to do their homework outside Europe in order to preserve employment and the standard of living in Europe. We have already missed the absolute leadership in the nano-electronics world. It is in the hands of US and Far East owned/based companies. Europe is lacking behind with a market share in the area of 30% or less. In some of the areas of the chip business we do not have something to offer at all (i.e., high performance computing and many cores). We do have a small chance to remain in the lead of embedded systems and they also have the potential to pull behind some of the nano-electronics business areas. We need to stay in the lead for security design. We need to pull these services together to form artificial intelligence for embedded systems. Concerning future technologies I personally strongly believe - and I encourage everybody involved in the area to follow - that every effort possible needs to be invested in embedded systems, artificial intelligence and security technologies as mentioned above in order to ensure Europe's future to stay sustainably bright in a challenging world-wide competition and globalization and making living in Europe worth it with a high employment rate, wealthy, healthy society and economy.