On May 26, 2026, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology unveiled the key priorities for automotive standardization, emphasizing the need to expedite the formulation and implementation of automotive chip standards. The outlined strategies encompass several critical aspects: elevating the environmental robustness, electromagnetic compatibility, functional safety, and information security standards of automotive chips; facilitating the review and approval process for standards related to stress testing requirements for automotive chips and technical specifications for information security; systematically advancing research on standards governing automotive chip products and their technological applications, with a particular focus on accelerating the release of standards for power management chips; promoting the standardized review and approval procedures for a wide range of automotive chips, including control, computing, in-vehicle communication, security, and power chips; expediting the development of standards for sensor chips and off-board communication chips; and initiating preliminary research on standards for automotive memory chips and driver chips, alongside research into standard test methods for automotive chip compatibility.
