{"id":227580,"date":"2026-03-25T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/googles-new-android-automotive-update-wants-to-control-your-cars-brain-as-micron-predicts-cars-will-soon-need-300gb-of-ram\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:20:14","slug":"googles-new-android-automotive-update-wants-to-control-your-cars-brain-as-micron-predicts-cars-will-soon-need-300gb-of-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/googles-new-android-automotive-update-wants-to-control-your-cars-brain-as-micron-predicts-cars-will-soon-need-300gb-of-ram\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s new Android Automotive update wants to control your car&#8217;s &#8216;brain&#8217; \u2014as Micron predicts cars will soon need 300GB of RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/vehicle-tech\/hybrid-electric-vehicles\/googles-new-android-automotive-update-wants-to-control-your-cars-brain-as-micron-predicts-cars-will-soon-need-300gb-of-ram\">Google\u2019s new Android Automotive update wants to control your car&#8217;s &#8216;brain&#8217; \u2014as Micron predicts cars will soon need 300GB of RAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/vehicle-tech\/hybrid-electric-vehicles\/googles-new-android-automotive-update-wants-to-control-your-cars-brain-as-micron-predicts-cars-will-soon-need-300gb-of-ram\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/vehicle-tech\/hybrid-electric-vehicles\/googles-new-android-automotive-update-wants-to-control-your-cars-brain-as-micron-predicts-cars-will-soon-need-300gb-of-ram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 16:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techradar.com\">www.techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"9a713192-9af0-4d67-83eb-ebfb679096d7\">\n<li><strong>Google announces updated version of Android Automotive OS<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tech giant hopes software can take care of key car functions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cars could eventually require more than 300GB of RAM, Micron says<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"ed444855-d6a2-42c6-8e39-6ac22019fda8\">Google has just announced an updated version of its Android Automotive open-source operating system for vehicles, which it hopes will see the software take care of the &#8220;non-safety&#8221; parts of today and tomorrow\u2019s Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs).<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, both passenger cars and commercial vehicles have become increasingly more complex. With the advent of electric vehicles and their simplified powertrain architecture, automotive manufacturers have turned towards compute power to both control the vehicle and offer cutting-edge infotainment systems.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ed444855-d6a2-42c6-8e39-6ac22019fda8-2\">Often described as Software Defined Vehicles, the phrase loosely applies to anything that can be updated, improved, diagnosed and fixed remotely, using a data connection within the car to connect to The Cloud.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-continues-below block py-2 text-sm\">Article continues below <\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 !text-base uppercase sm:text-sm font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a blog post written by Google\u2019s group product manager, Matt Crowley explains that modern cars are quickly becoming \u201ccomputers on wheels\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom pre-heating your car in the morning to using your smartphone as a car key, many of today\u2019s vehicle functions are controlled by software,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>But modern automotive manufacturers also face a number of hurdles, chiefly as most of them have limited experience in coding and software, so have had to create entire divisions dedicated to rapidly emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, Crowley says that most automakers are integrating software modules from dozens of different suppliers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fragmented approach means carmakers have to spend time on building infrastructure rather than what truly differentiates them in a fast-moving market,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>As you have likely already predicted, Google and Android want to make this simpler&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/vehicle-tech\/hybrid-electric-vehicles\/googles-new-android-automotive-update-wants-to-control-your-cars-brain-as-micron-predicts-cars-will-soon-need-300gb-of-ram\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s new Android Automotive update wants to control your car&#8217;s &#8216;brain&#8217; \u2014as Micron predicts cars&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/2WNw6jNgh76uskiwrxaWB9-1920-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-227580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227582,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227580\/revisions\/227582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}