Semiconductor company Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq:TXN) on Tuesday introduced a new suite of automotive lidar, radar and clock chips aimed at improving vehicle autonomy and safety across a broader range of models.

The company launched the LMH13000, the industry's first high-speed, single-chip lidar laser driver, which achieves up to 30% longer distance measurements and reduces system costs by approximately 30%.

Designed for reliable operation across extreme temperatures, the LMH13000 also enables compliance with Class 1 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) eye safety standards by maintaining current variation within 2%.

Texas Instruments also debuted the first automotive-grade bulk acoustic wave (BAW)-based clocks -- the CDC6C-Q1 oscillator and LMK3H0102-Q1 and LMK3C0105-Q1 generators -- offering 100 times the reliability of traditional quartz-based solutions.

These clocks enhance data accuracy and resilience in harsh automotive environments, supporting safer advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and infotainment performance.

In radar technology, the new AWR2944P mmWave sensor builds on the AWR2944 platform with improved signal-to-noise ratio, computational power, memory and an integrated accelerator for edge artificial intelligence applications.

Together, these innovations provide automakers with scalable, high-performance options to design adaptable ADAS and accelerate development toward collision-free driving.

Pre-production units are now available on TI.com, with additional versions of the LMH13000 expected in 2026.