“This is where Quanergy comes in: its solid-state LIDAR has no moving parts. Zero. Not even micromirrors or anything like that. Instead, Quanergy’s LIDAR uses an optical phased array as a transmitter, which can steer pulses of light by shifting the phase of a laser pulse as it’s projected through the array”

“ with the S3, you just get a million points per second and you can decide what frame rate you want to deal with them at, since it’s all software controlled. Field of view is 120 degrees both horizontally and vertically. The minimum range is 10 centimeters, and the maximum range is at least 150 meters at 8 percent reflectivity. At 100 meters, the distance accuracy is +/- 5 cm, and the minimum spot size is just 9 cm. The S3 itself is 9 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm. Produced in volume, an S3 unit will cost $250 or less, Quanergy says. “Volume,” in this case, is about 100,000 units, which isn’t a lot in the automotive space. In a few more years, the company plans to release a $100 version that is on one integrated ASIC and is small enough to be (potentially) embedded into mobile devices, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves”