Software Figures, Data and Facts

To date, Continental has invested around 2 million working hours into software development.
Continental’s software powerhouse comprises 21,000 software and IT experts
By 2023, Continental will employ around 1,600 AI experts; this number is currently 1,000.
Continental currently already generates sales of around 4 billion euros with the development of high-performance computers.

Strong growth is expected in the area of automotive software: According to a Statista forecast from 2019, sales are expected to increase from $20 billion in 2020 to over $50billion in 2030.
While only ten percent of functions in a new car were controlled by software in 2013, it is expected that this will rise to 40 percent in 2023.

It is expected that the required computing power per car will increase by a factor of 50 in the period between 2015 and 2030 (from 100,000 –132,000 DMIPS to an estimated 2,000,000 DMIPS).
The average new car contains around 100,000,000 lines of code (as of: 2018).
10 Gbit/s will be the new standard for Ethernet in cars (as of: 2019).
According to Continental, 20 or more antennas are installed in a networked vehicle (as of: 2019).
Time-critical information can be transferred between vehicles in less than 30 milliseconds in an LTE network (as of: 2019).
5G, the next generation of mobile communications network technology, can process up to 10 gigabits of data per second and thus enables millions of cars to simultaneously communicate with one another.
30 sensors are needed for fully automated and autonomous vehicles (18 sensors for semiautonomous driving) (as of: 2019).
ICAS1 contains approximately 20 million lines of code that map 70,000 hardware and software requirements; it was developed by 19 different parties.

Continental currently drives around 15,000 km per day with its fleet – generating around 100 terabytes of data (corresponding to around 50,000 hours of video material), which the supercomputer evaluates.
Continental’s supercomputer enables virtual simulations totaling up to 8,000 km per hour.
Continental’s supercomputer is among the 500 most powerful computers in the world and is located in Frankfurt am Main.
Continental’s supercomputer comprises more than 400 graphics processors and conducts several billion computing operations per second.

To date, software has been installed in a billion devices in 100 million vehicles worldwide.
Around 20 Continental teams at four locations in Europe and Asia are involved in the agile development of the cockpit high-performance computer. 70,000 automated tests are carried out and 250 software baselines are generated and automatically documented per week.

The code of ethics formulates ethics guidelines for Continental in the context of artificial intelligence.