oakland california silicon valley automotive ethernet chip startup ethernovia inc said on monday it had raised 64 million in a series a funding round including porsche automobil holding se qualcomm ventures venturetech alliance and othersas automakers pivot to electric vehicles with more driver assistance functions they are revamping the electronics to eliminate dozens of cables that crisscross the car linking up over 100 microchips instead they are building a central computer to control everything from camera and radar sensors to the windows and the entertainment dashboardramin shirani ethernovias cofounder and ceo said he started the company in 2018 to build a single ethernet network in the car that would be the backbone for these new vehicleswere not the brains of the car were not the sensors of the car but anything that connects the brains to the sensors thats where we are shirani told reutersethernovia has created a family of ethernet chips and software that help simplify the electronics architecture of the car he saidthe company said that the funding would be used to continue developing the products and to build up a team for marketing sales and customer support it declined to share the latest company valuation