Automotive hardware — sensors, microcontrollers, and power electronics — increasingly drives safety-critical vehicle functions, yet it has long lacked a process assessment model as mature as Automotive SPICE® for software. This session introduces intacs® Hardware SPICE (HW SPICE) PRM/PAM 4.0 — a hardware-focused process reference and assessment model aligned with Automotive SPICE® 4.1, mapped to ISO 26262 for functional safety, and mapped to ISO 21434 for cybersecurity (intacs.info).). Attendees will leave with a practical understanding of what HW SPICE covers, why hardware-specific process assessment matters alongside software and system-level assessments, and how it closes hardware process gaps that traditional software-only assessments miss.