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On November 4, 2022, the second SAIC Zero Beam SOA platform developer Conference officially opened, and many SAIC partners and developers, including Baidu, Ali, Tencent, OPPO, Horizon and so on, gathered together to imagine the infinite possibilities of a new era of smart cars.

Friends who follow SAIC should still be able to afford the first Zero SOA platform developer Conference last year, whether it is the shining debut of the zero bundle "Galaxy" smart car full stack solution or the birth of the industry's first automotive SOA developer platform, all kinds of innovations are still fresh in people's memory.

And if you want to use one word to summarize the second Zero SOA developer Conference this year, CTOnews.com will not hesitate to choose the word "ecology".

The great ecology of smart cars is both inevitable and important, and it is even more difficult that when we introduced the concept of zero-beam SOA platform to you last year, we mentioned that the whole vehicle definition model in the smart car era will be based on the trend of "software-defined cars". Software will be deeply involved in the whole process of smart car definition, development, verification, sales and service, making cars a smart space for users to move. SOA (Service-oriented Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture) is the basic means to realize software-defined automobile.

Compared with the past, from the vertical point of view of the automobile industry, the most obvious change in the era of "software-defined cars" is probably the restructuring of the supply chain.

In the traditional automobile era, the automobile supply chain is generally presented in the form of vertical integration, which is divided into Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 by the compactness of raw materials, parts suppliers and automobile manufacturers.

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In the software-defined smart car era, the number of parts is reduced, and the tightness and grade between suppliers and vehicle manufacturers begin to blur. Some suppliers begin to go from behind the scenes to the front, coupled with the emergence of highly integrated component suppliers, as well as new software, service providers and other factors, the vehicle supply chain begins to show a complex mesh shape.

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In this case, it is difficult for vehicle manufacturers to rely on single-link suppliers to form complete products and services. Therefore, the construction of a "win-win ecological circle" has become an inevitable road, and the importance of "ecology" has been drawn to an unprecedented height.

And this will be an unprecedented "huge ecology", because smart cars are no longer just popular tools, but service providers that connect everything. For automakers, they are facing an intricate mesh supply chain. They are facing the demand for services from thousands of banks and industries, and, of course, the surging opportunities of the times such as smart travel and the Internet of everything.

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However, it is not easy for vehicle manufacturers to build such a smart car ecosystem.

First of all, this requires that vehicle enterprises have sufficient product and market influence and appeal, can effectively integrate industrial resources, horizontally connect the partners of various industries to the greatest extent, and then co-exist with each other. In other words, you need to have as wide a circle of friends as possible and be able to respond with one voice.

Secondly, it is necessary to reduce the practical threshold of symbiosis with partners and build a big ecology of smart cars. On the one hand, this test tests the full-stack technical capability of the whole vehicle enterprise. the so-called full-stack technical capability is the technical control in various fields, such as the whole vehicle architecture to intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit and other software platforms. Only with such core technical capabilities can we build a complete intelligent car ecosystem.

On the other hand, it is necessary to promote the formulation of design specifications and related technical standards at the level of software, hardware and services, such as the establishment of a unified data center, otherwise data barriers and isolated islands will be formed in the ecosphere. In addition, standards need to be established for the security and privacy protection of automobile data, the liability of information infringement, and so on, so as to clear the way for the symbiosis of partners.

There is another point, that is, for vehicle manufacturers, in the process of building a big ecology of smart cars, they need to always find their own position and make clear their own value and role in the ecology, which must be open and altruistic. At the same time, build access standards, build developer ecology, including how to distribute the interests of developers, and so on. In short, what we need to create is an open ecology, so that resources can flow in real time and make clear what can be done and what cannot be done.

In short, building a complete intelligent automobile ecology is a systematic and arduous project, which needs to meet sufficient requirements in the aspects of industrial influence, resource integration, technological comprehensiveness, standard driving force, and so on. and we also need to recognize the self-orientation and make clear the boundary between the self and the open. In other words, this is not something that any company can easily push forward.

From influence to technical ability, SAIC is ready to walk alone at high speed, while others are far away! Zero beam technology will join hands with more like-minded partners to create an open, shared, co-created and win-win new ecology of smart cars.

At this developer conference, Li Jun, CEO of SAIC Zero Beam Technology, said in a speech.

An important mission of this year's Zero-beam SOA platform developer Conference is to explore how to promote China's "smart car ecology" to speed up "landing expansion", which is what SAIC is doing its best to do. As we said earlier, building a smart car ecosystem is not an easy task, so what are the advantages, or chances of success, of SAIC?

First of all, let's talk about industrial influence. According to SAIC's 2021 annual report, 5.464 million vehicles were sold in batches in 2021, and terminal retail sales reached 5.811 million, an increase of 5.5% over the same period last year. Vehicle sales have been the first in the country for 16 years in a row.

At the same time, independent brands, new energy vehicles and overseas markets have become the "new troika" driven by SAIC. Especially worth mentioning is the new energy vehicle. SAIC sold 733000 vehicles in 2021, ranking first in China and top three in the world.

In terms of independent brands, not to mention sales, SAIC has nurtured 20 "Little Giants of Science and Technology", including Jethydrogen Technology, Zhiji Automobile, Feifan Automobile, Zero Software and so on. They go deep into the fields of smart cars and smart travel, and continue to release their influence.

As of last year, SAIC has been firmly in the "Fortune" list of the world's top 100 for nine consecutive years, and its industrial influence is believed to be needless to say.

Next is the technical capability of the full stack of smart cars. At present, SAIC is deeply promoting the "new four modernizations" strategy of "electrification, intelligent network connection, sharing, and internationalization", and since the beginning of this year, they have also made steady progress on the new track of electric intelligent network association with their ecological partners. and initially constructed the "157X" innovative technology system, including the "seven technology bases" created by SAIC Group.

The seven technology bases include: "SAIC Nebula" pure electric exclusive systematic platform, "SAIC Everest" oil-electric integrated vehicle architecture, "SAIC Xinghe" electric and hydrogen integrated vehicle architecture, and four key system technology bases, such as blue core powertrain system, platform Rubik's cube battery system, green core electric drive system, "Galaxy" full-stack smart car solution.

These seven technology bases basically cover the capabilities of intelligent network-connected vehicles in all areas, including the layout of choking technologies such as solid-state batteries and chip localization. Around this zero-beam SOA developer conference, what we are going to focus on is the "Galaxy" full-stack smart car solution.

Galaxy's full-stack smart car solution 1.0 was released last year, while this year's developer conference released a 3.0 solution. The solution consists of four core technologies: central centralized electronic architecture, cloud management integrated SOA software platform, intelligent cabin, intelligent driving and cabin driving integrated computing platform, and intelligent vehicle cloud platform. "1" is the digital experience product of cabin driving integration.

Its underlying logic is made up of electronic architecture-computing platform-software platform-intelligent cloud platform step by step, acting as productivity, relations of production, means of production, and the user value they output is the digital experience products integrated by cabin drivers.

Galaxy, a full-stack smart car solution released by the SOA developer Conference, has achieved breakthroughs and upgrades in almost every link.

First of all, the underlying electronic architecture is mainly provided by chips. At this press conference, SAIC and Horizon jointly released a smart driving solution based on the journey ®5 chip. Journey 5 is the only 2 in the world and the first mass-produced 100 TOPS AI chip in China. The computing power of a single chip AI is as high as 128TOPS, which will provide sufficient power guarantee for the intelligent car cabin driving experience.

The computing platform mainly includes intelligent driving computing platform and intelligence module computing platform.

At this conference, SAIC first released the independently developed zero-beam Galaxy ®smart driving computing platform ZPD, which has flexible scalability and open ecology, gives full play to the advantages of domestic big computing chips, leading algorithm technology, and is also the best solution of performance-to-price ratio.

At the same time, it also released the self-developed zero-beam Galaxy ®intelligence module computing platform ZCM. ZCM integrates the wisdom genes of self-learning, self-growth and self-evolution, and can provide users with a full-scene digital experience from inside to outside the car, from the local to the cloud.

In the upward software platform, that is, the cloud management integrated software development platform, at this level, the biggest highlight of this conference is the release of zero Galaxy ®smart car operating system ZOS. ZOS "downward" can cooperate with domestic chips to achieve "software-hardware collaboration", while "up" provides a standard unified interface to achieve "soft-soft decoupling" and provides developers with a unified development platform for cross-domain integration. This is also SAIC's efforts to promote uniform standards.

Speaking of the system, there is also a very key achievement, that is, zero beam SOA digital mall will soon be launched, which will soon realize the software "can be bought, sold, and subscribed", and then achieve the business closed loop from "technological innovation-commercial realization-value return".

The intelligent cloud platform is mainly a data factory, which uniformly collects and simulates the data, thus forming a closed loop of the data.

Finally, the closest to consumers is the cabin pilot integration digital experience platform, this conference SAIC brought a zero beam of Galaxy ®cabin driver fusion computing platform ZXD. This is a high-performance car computer that supports flexible expansion of hardware configuration and will be pre-installed with a smart car operating system, thus reducing the difficulty of smart car software and algorithm development.

The release of a series of new products focuses on SAIC's full stack of technical capabilities in the field of smart cars, which on the one hand lowers the threshold for cooperation between SAIC and ecological partners, and is also the basis for them to build a complete smart car ecology.

In order to further lower the threshold of cooperation between SAIC and ecological partners, and to further promote mutual integration and symbiosis within the intelligent vehicle ecology, SAIC and OPPO jointly created the concept of "ecological domain" in the industry, and they also jointly issued the "Ecological Domain White Paper" at this developer conference.

Ecological domain makes use of the extensive compatibility of underlying protocols to realize the discovery and connection of devices. It is the first to realize the cross-border integration of mobile phone ecology and smart cars, so that mobile phones and cars can truly achieve non-inductive connection, resource sharing and data exchange. For example, you can let the application flow seamlessly between the mobile phone and the car, use the mobile phone as the controller when playing the game, and output the game screen on the car screen, which is not a level experience at all with simple screen casting.

This is an excellent case for SAIC to build an intelligent automobile ecology and dominate mutual integration and symbiosis, and it is also a concentrated embodiment of the superiority of SAIC SOA development platform and concept. They deeply integrate the core competencies of "Galaxy full Stack Technology solution" and OPPO "Pantanal Intelligent Cross-end system" to achieve system-level architecture integration, software and hardware capability sharing, data application and service ecological trust, and multimodal intelligent interaction. If this is a closed solution in the past, it is basically impossible to achieve.

In order to reduce the threshold for developers to enrich ecological domains, ecological domains also support multi-terminal deployment at one time, realizing mutual adjustment of capabilities between mobile phones and mobile phones, collaborative distribution of application services, and allowing developers to promote and share applications freely. and through subscription, authorization, value-added services and other revenue, greatly improve the efficiency of development.

At the same time, SAIC is also actively working with partners in various fields to continue to promote ecological domain standardization. And also open up technical standards and development resources to the whole industry to further reduce the threshold of entry.

In fact, all this is SAIC conveying to the outside world the concept of "mutual integration" and "co-creation", as Dr. Li Jun said in his speech: "accept customers from all over the world and be a good waiter." This is SAIC's understanding of self-positioning in the new ecology of smart cars. What they do is to unite capable enterprises as much as possible to open up better and richer scenes, create cooperation opportunities, and provide quality services. Equal and win-win co-creation and sharing benefits with all partners.

The road is long and the storm stands in the way. But I believe that if we continue to walk along this road, a powerful smart car ecology will be slowly formed in the journey one step at a time.

In conclusion, looking back on the prosperity of the mobile Internet era, perhaps the most important thing is not the popularity of smartphones, but a prosperous mobile service ecology composed of countless App applications. That's why some people say that App Store is Apple's greatest invention, and that it fully exploits the value of applications and services.

Next, an era of intelligent Internet connected cars is coming, and it is not known who can create the "App Store" of this era and who can really build a new ecology. But what is certain is that only when we can achieve openness and harmony and symbiosis, can we dig up the most precious gems of this era. This is a process of achieving each other.

As Zu Qijie, vice president and chief engineer of SAIC, said:

Only by persisting in ecological development cooperation can we hedge the uncertainty in the evolution of the new electric intelligent network car track. The competition on the new track is not only a speed race, but also an endurance race.

Only when you are in the crowd can you lift easily.

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