Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Recently, the 2023 Guangzhou Auto Show was held in Guangzhou. The scale of this auto show has expanded, and the number of exhibitors / first-launch models has increased. Many automobile companies and suppliers at home and abroad have appeared to hold important release activities.

During the auto show, CARIAD China CEO Chang Qing said that the new joint venture between Volkswagen CARIAD and Horizon will become the first batch of targeted partners for Horizon's next-generation chip expedition 6.

In the future, the joint venture will develop L2 + and L2 + intelligent driving products based on the Horizon Expedition series.

Journey 6 is a new generation product of Horizon, a provider of intelligent driving computing solutions. Unlike previous generations of Horizon products with a single chip in 2-3-5, Expedition 6 will launch a series of products for the first time. Adventure 6 will be available in multiple versions, but all will be based on the same Horizon self-developed BPU Nash architecture.

CARIAD China CEO Chang Qing said that with the continuous evolution of Cheng family products, Horizon will accelerate to help the smart driving industry break the situation. CARIAD will join hands with excellent Chinese science and technology partners such as Horizon to establish a joint venture to create a smart driving solution "in China, for China".

At present, Volkswagen is relying on the cooperation of the Chinese market to accelerate the intelligent transformation.

On September 27, FAW-Volkswagen reached a strategic cooperation with Aliyun Computing.

On September 21, SAIC-Volkswagen and Zero Beam Technology Joint Innovation and Research Center was officially established.

On August 22, SAIC-Volkswagen and Xichi Technology announced the establishment of a joint innovation center.

On April 13, Volkswagen CARIAD announced the establishment of a new partnership with China Kechuangda.

At present, Horizon is the most important intelligent partner for Volkswagen's cooperation in China.

In October last year, Volkswagen Group and Horizon jointly announced that they would set up a joint venture with Horizon through its CARIAD company to develop autopilot assistance systems and solutions.

It has been revealed that Volkswagen has invested 2.4 billion euros in the cooperation between the two sides, of which US $1 billion is for direct investment in the horizon. This investment is considered to be the largest investment cooperation in the field of intelligence in China's automobile industry.

During the event, Volkswagen CARIAD also announced the latest progress of its joint venture with Horizon. At present, the preparation of the joint venture company is nearing completion and is expected to land in Beijing by the end of the year.

It is understood that Horizon is also one of the most important intelligent suppliers in China.

In terms of market share, Horizon's expedition series of intelligent driving chips have shipped 4 million pieces, ranking in the forefront of the domestic market.

In terms of product technology, the journey 3 chip provides a cost-effective solution, while the journey 5 chip firmly occupies the niche of the big computing chip.

In terms of partners, in 2020, the China Automobile Association announced that the top 10 enterprises (groups) in China have mass production cooperation projects with the horizon. The latest data show that there are more than 50 mass-production models using journey chips and more than 150 fixed-point models.

In terms of high-level intelligence, Nvidia and Horizon together accounted for more than 80% of the market share in NOA delivery in the first half of 2023. Among them, Horizon NOA has more than 20 mass-produced models, ranking first.

With the launch of Expedition 6, the industry is expected to help Horizon consolidate its market advantage and continue to drive high-end smart cars in the escalating car intelligence revolution.

Thanks to Horizon's mass production experience of millions of third-generation chips in 2-3-5, this expedition 6 launched a variety of configurations to achieve the first family-style product matrix.

The differentiated chip based on the latest BPU Nash can adapt to the needs of different high-level and low-level smart driving scenarios, which will help Horizon win different orders from many types of customers. Models with different market segments and different hardware configurations have the opportunity to develop intelligence based on journey 6.

It is understood that the high-end version of Expedition 6 will have more computing power than 500TOPS, support cutting-edge models such as Transformer, and are specially designed for high-level smart driving, and it is also expected to replicate the industry benchmark event of domestic smart driving computing.

The 6 intended partners announced together with Volkswagen CARIAD and Horizon Joint Venture include BYD, Guangzhou Automobile, ideal and Bosch, which are full of gold.

New energy global sales first, traditional mainframe factory transformation new power sales first, new power sales first, global Tie1 first. It can be said that the card face is full, the color is full, and the prospect is bright.

Entering the second half of the intelligent car, Volkswagen has been committed to accelerating the intelligent transformation, hoping to enter the innovative highland of smart driving in the Chinese market. In the industrial theme of "combination of strong powers and complementary advantages", cooperation with the horizon is obviously a fast lane. The blessing of the future journey 6 may become a key inflection point for Volkswagen to break the Chinese market.

Welcome to subscribe "Shulou Technology Information " to get latest news, interesting things and hot topics in the IT industry, and controls the hottest and latest Internet news, technology news and IT industry trends.