# EyeQ6 chips (EyeQ6 Lite and EyeQ6 High) by Mobileye Global Inc.

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/vehicles/eyeq6
Frontier: [Vehicles](https://technooptimist.io/vehicles.md) · Field: Self-driving chips · Company: [Mobileye Global Inc.](https://technooptimist.io/companies/mobileye.md)
Stage: Deploy (4 of 5: Research → Proto → Pilot → Deploy → Scaling)
Updated: last update 2026-07-23, facts checked 2026-10-11
Goal: Put camera-based safety features, and then hands-free highway driving, into mass-market cars at low cost. One cheap chip running all the sensors replaces several control boxes, so carmakers can fit it as standard.
Status: EyeQ6 Lite ships in volume; EyeQ6 High has 19M+ Surround ADAS units booked with VW and a US carmaker.

## Milestones

| Status | Milestone | Date | Slip |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Done | EyeQ6 High and Lite introduced | May 2022 |   |
| Done | First EyeQ6 Lite production hardware delivered to carmakers | 17 Apr 2024 |   |
| Done | Volkswagen first Surround ADAS customer (single EyeQ6 High) | Mar 2025 |   |
| Done | US carmaker picks EyeQ6 High; 19M+ Surround systems expected | 5 Jan 2026 |   |

## Most important updates

- **23 Jul 2026**: Mobileye ships 10.0 million EyeQ systems in Q2 2026 and raises full-year guidance. Mobileye shipped 10.0 million EyeQ and SuperVision systems in the second quarter of 2026, up 3% from a year earlier, but the average system price fell to $48.5 from $49.7 because of higher China export volumes. ([our story](https://technooptimist.io/stories/mobileye-ships-10-0-million-eyeq-systems-in-q2-2026-and-raises-full-a1f4995d.md) · [original source](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001910139/000110465926086062/tm2612233d1_ex99-1.htm))
- **5 Jan 2026**: US carmaker selects Mobileye EyeQ6 High for standard hands-free highway driving; 19M+ systems expected. An unnamed US-based top-10 automaker chose Mobileye's EyeQ6 High-based Surround ADAS, to be standard across its mainstream and premium models. ([our story](https://technooptimist.io/stories/us-carmaker-selects-mobileye-eyeq6-high-for-standard-hands-free-highway-f2ea21f3.md) · [original source](https://www.mobileye.com/news/mobileye-surround-adas-adds-second-top-10-automaker/))
- **25 Mar 2025**: Mobileye launches Surround ADAS on a single EyeQ6 High; Volkswagen is the first customer. Mobileye introduced Surround ADAS, a hands-off, eyes-on highway system that runs on one EyeQ6 High chip and one control unit, with Volkswagen as the first design win for volume models. ([our story](https://technooptimist.io/stories/mobileye-launches-surround-adas-on-a-single-eyeq6-high-volkswagen-is-fc034113.md) · [original source](https://www.mobileye.com/blog/how-surround-adas-delivers-the-new-standard-of-safety-and-tech/))
- **17 Apr 2024**: Mobileye begins delivering EyeQ6 Lite chips for driver-assist systems launching in 2024. Mobileye delivered the first production-candidate hardware and software of its EyeQ6 Lite chip to carmakers, for driver-assist systems in vehicles launching that year. ([our story](https://technooptimist.io/stories/mobileye-begins-delivering-eyeq6-lite-chips-for-driver-assist-systems-1aae243b.md) · [original source](https://www.mobileye.com/news/mobileye-eyeq6-lite-launches-to-speed-adas-upgrades-worldwide/))

## Current obstacles

- **Falling price per chip**: Q2 2026 average system price fell to $48.5 from $49.7 as cheaper China export volumes grew, offsetting a 3% rise in units.
- **Turning bookings into cars**: The 19M Surround ADAS units become revenue only as VW and the unnamed US carmaker launch models; no launch dates are public.

## Physics limits

- **Car chips live on a tight power and cost budget**: A chip that ships in tens of millions of cars must be cheap, cool itself passively and survive years of heat and vibration, which caps compute far below data-center chips.
- **Cameras infer depth rather than measure it**: A camera estimates distance from image cues; glare, fog or darkness can fool it, which is why higher automation levels add radar or lidar.

## How it works

### EyeQ6 Lite: One windscreen camera chip

Reads an 8-megapixel, 120-degree front camera for emergency braking and lane keeping, with 4.5x the compute of EyeQ4M at similar power.

### EyeQ6 High: One chip for the whole car

Fuses up to 11 cameras and radars for hands-free highway driving up to 130 km/h; two to four chips power SuperVision, Chauffeur and Drive.

### Design: Dedicated accelerators

Pairs a few CPU cores with fixed-purpose vision and neural accelerators instead of a big general GPU, trading flexibility for low cost and power.

### Maps: Crowdsourced road maps

Over 8 million cars send anonymised road data that maps nearly all US and European highways, so the car knows the lanes before it sees them.

## Spec sheet

| Spec | EyeQ6 chips (EyeQ6 Lite and EyeQ6 High) | EyeQ5 / EyeQ4 | Provenance |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EyeQ6 High compute (INT8) | 34 TOPS |   | reported |
| EyeQ6 Lite compute (INT8) | 5 TOPS |   | reported |
| Process node | 7 nm |   | reported |
| Sensors per EyeQ6 High (Surround ADAS) | up to 11 |   | reported |
| Hands-free speed limit (Surround ADAS) | 130 km/h (81 mph) |   | reported |
| Expected Surround ADAS units | 19 million+ |   | reported |
| EyeQ systems shipped, Q2 2026 | 10.0 million | 9.7 million (Q2 2025) | reported |
| EyeQ chips shipped, all generations | 200 million+ |   | reported |

Provenance: reported = stated by the company; estimated = our estimate; sample = a sample figure.

## About Mobileye Global Inc.

Founded 1999 in Jerusalem; Intel acquired 2017 ($15.3B), returned public Oct 2022 (MBLY). Modular platform from driver assistance (SuperVision Level 3) to fully autonomous (Drive, Level 4).

- Dominant ADAS chipmaker (EyeQ in millions of vehicles); scaling Level 4 with VW, Audi, Porsche and Uber, Lyft robotaxis.
- Drive Level 4 testing in LA with Uber (2026); driverless service 2027. European trials (Oslo, Hamburg) starting 2026.
- SuperVision (Level 3) and Chauffeur (Level 4 prototype with EyeQ6) in development; SOP 2027–2028 for premium brands.

- Founded: 1999
- Headquarters: IL
- Status: public
- Listing: MBLY (NASDAQ)
- Valuation: $7.1B (market cap, 2026-07)
- Last round: IPO (post-Intel separation) $861M, Oct 2022
- Website: https://www.mobileye.com
- People: Amnon Shashua (Founder; stepped down as CEO July 2026)
- Partners, customers, investors: Intel (investor); Volkswagen Group (partner); Uber (partner); Lyft (partner)

Company page: https://technooptimist.io/companies/mobileye.md

## Related programs

More from Mobileye Global Inc.:

- [Mobileye Drive](https://technooptimist.io/vehicles/mobileye-drive.md) (Pilot)
- [SuperVision / Chauffeur](https://technooptimist.io/vehicles/supervision-chauffeur.md) (Proto)
- [MenteeBot](https://technooptimist.io/robotics/menteebot.md) (Proto)

Everything in Vehicles: https://technooptimist.io/vehicles.md

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