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On the 8th of this month, CARIAD official WeChat announced that CARIAD, a software company owned by Volkswagen, and Horizon CARIZON, a joint venture company, was officially established.

The name of the new company is half of both CARIAD and HORIZON, reflecting a strong color of cooperation.

After a comprehensive agreement disclosed in 2022, the partnership between the two sides was formalized, which emphasizes the integration of hardware and software functions of the smart driving solution.

Of these, Volkswagen Group invested about 2.4 billion euros in the partnership, of which CARIAD holds a 60% stake.

2.4 billion euros is the largest single investment since Volkswagen entered China nearly 40 years ago, and the joint venture event has also become the most important intelligent cooperation in China's automobile market in 2022.

The landing of CARIZON has aroused widespread concern. This article will bring more interpretations of related reports.

At the moment, Volkswagen is making every effort to start the electrified transformation.

According to Volkswagen's website at the end of October, its BEV deliveries increased by 45% to 531500 in the first three quarters of this year. The European market remained the main driver of BEV growth, at 341100 vehicles. The Chinese market sold 117000 vehicles, accounting for 22 per cent of the group's sales, up 4 per cent from a year earlier.

Not long ago, Volkswagen announced that it would launch a domestic specially supplied pure electric model platform. The new platform, derived from the group's MEB platform, aims to further explore China's market segment and develop "tailor-made" pure electric models with a development cycle that can be shortened by about 1 per cent compared with the previous one.

The key to boosting the pure electricity market is not only to launch more local models for the Chinese market, but also to develop competitive intelligent solutions.

At present, the Chinese market, which is leading the electrified change, is becoming an intelligent global innovation highland.

Hilgenberg, the former chairman of CARIAD, also said in an exchange that only 10% of the problems with popular software come from technology, and the remaining 90% are cultural.

In order to localize as soon as possible, this year CARIAD set up two joint ventures in China, acquired a design company, set up two laboratories and invested in a software research and development factory.

In mid-September 36 Krypton reported that Horizon will transfer some staff from the internal team to the joint venture, which is expected to reach 300 people.

In this information disclosure, Cool Ruicheng, headquartered in Beijing, plans to recruit more than 300 employees by the end of 2023. The CEO of Cool Ruicheng is Alexis Trolin from CARIAD, who was previously the head of the CARIAD E3 platform, and the chief technology officer is Huang Chang, one of Horizon's founding members.

According to this public information, Kerry Cheng will integrate Horizon's strong software and hardware technology capabilities and CARIAD's professional experience in intelligent body and software system integration to develop leading, highly optimized full-stack advanced driving assistance systems and self-driving solutions.

The new company will develop the Horizon-based journey family computing solution, and plans to apply its intelligent driving solution to Volkswagen Group's all-electric models in the Chinese market.

At present, Horizon's expedition smart driving chip has shipped 4 million pieces, with more than 50 mass-produced models and more than 150 designated models, with a market share in the forefront of the domestic market.

Among them, the journey 3 chip provides a cost-effective solution, the journey 5 chip firmly occupies the niche of the big computing chip, and both of them can land on the cutting edge of the current high-level smart drive NOA function.

According to tripartite data, in the first half of 2023, in terms of NOA delivery, Horizon NOA produced more than 20 models, ranking first in the industry, with model prices ranging from 150000 to 400000.

With the excellent mass production performance of the range chip, Horizon has rapidly grown into one of the most important automotive intelligent suppliers in China in recent years.

During the recent Guangzhou Auto Show, Horizon also revealed the progress of the latest chip product journey 6.

Adventure 6 is a series of products that can cover intelligent driving needs from low-level to high-level. The flagship version is built for urban high-level smart driving scenarios, with computing power as high as 560TOPS, and supports models such as BEV and Transformer, fully demonstrating the technological advantages of Horizon in the field of intelligent driving.

The first batch of intended partners for mass production include BYD, GAC, Bosch and Volkswagen CARIAD.

The establishment of CARIZON will serve as Tier1, relying on the mature intelligent driving technology of the horizon to enhance the intelligent level of Volkswagen's models in China.

As commented by the media, the change of thinking to meet the wave of new energy vehicles and the establishment of a joint venture with Horizon have ushered in an era of comprehensive cooperation for Volkswagen in China.

From this point of view, the industry significance of Volkswagen, one of the largest car companies in the world, to join hands with Horizon, one of the largest suppliers of smart car computing solutions in China, to establish Kuiruicheng CARIZON will gradually show in the future.

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