I'm not aware of the automotive play until Tegra2 reached the end of its lifecycle as a Smartphone CPU. From what I know, Tegra had its inception as a CPU for p

I'm not aware of the automotive play until Tegra2 reached the end of its lifecycle as a Smartphone CPU. From what I know, Tegra had its inception as a CPU for portable electronics, in the era of ~2011 when Smartphone vendors sourced CPU's and Modems from different parties instead of having a single SoC including the Modem. Tegra2 was going head-to-head with TI OMAP3 in ~2012 for the fastest Premium Smartphone Platform, Tegra2 powered the first DualCore Smartphone in the world. At that time there were a few players on that market for CPU + Modem: - Qualcomm APQ + Qualcomm MDM Modem - TI OMAP + Infineon XMM Modem / Qualcomm MDM Modem - nVidia Tegra + Infineon XMM / Qualcomm MDM Modem - Samsung Exynos + Infineon XMM / Qualcomm MDM Modem - Apple/Samsung custom + Infineon XMM / Qualcomm MDM Modem In the end Qualcomm won against TI and nVidia by forging a path to merge APQ and MDM into their SD/SDM SoC-line and becoming "less economic" for Hardware manufacturers to have their Modems combined with other CPU's.