This week, three silicon vendors have announced wins that position them well in the connected car market – but less than 1% of consumers will recall ever having heard their names. STMicroelectronics, NXP, and CEVA have all released deals that should further their automotive ambitions. The market is still emerging, and there are a lot of niches left to contest. Similarly, there are a number of players that have shown no real interest in certain areas – such as Nvidia’s apparent exclusive focus on the industry-leading machine learning and AI functions, but absence in the less headline-grabbing airbag or ADAS applications. First up, STMicro has announced a new phase in its partnership with Mobileye, an image-processing and machine learning focused…