China's MIIT Accelerates Automotive Chip Standards for Control, Computing, and Security Chips on May 26

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), on May 26, the department released its 2026 automotive standardization roadmap, prioritizing the acceleration of automotive chip standards development.

The initiative focuses on advancing standards for control chips, computing chips, in-vehicle communication chips, security chips, and power chips through expedited review and approval processes. The MIIT also plans to release power management chip standards while accelerating research and development for sensor chips and external communication chips. Additional priorities include standardization of automotive storage and driver chips, along with automotive chip matching test methods.