Today, First Auto Works (FAW) Hongqi officially announced that it will use the Horizon Journey 5 chip to create an intelligent driving domain controller, providing 484-512 TOPS of computing power for the brand new generation of FEEA 3.0 electronics and electrical architecture.
This is the third car company, following BYD and NIO, to officially announce the adoption of the Journey 5 chip.
Journey 5 is the third-generation automotive chip of Horizon Robotics. This high-performance domestically produced chip has a maximum computing power of 128 TOPS. In sync with Journey 5’s launch, Horizon Matrix 5 intelligent computing platform, based on the same chip, has been developed, with a single-board computing power of 512 TOPS, meeting the smart driving computing power requirements covering L2-L4 scenarios.
At the Journey 5 launch event last year, Horizon Robotics stated that it had reached an agreement with several car companies to collaborate on Journey 5 installation. Besides the already announced BYD and FAW Hongqi, the car manufacturers included SAIC, Changan, and Li Auto. Therefore, there will be more location-based joint announcements in the future.
Horizon Robotics is positioned as Tier-2 and can provide users with high-performance chips, computing platforms, and even the landing of intelligent driving functions. However, domain control and middleware integration will still be completed by partner Tier-1s. Compared with industry leader Mobileye, the Journey 5 chip has higher computing power than the latter. Additionally, Horizon Robotics will not deliver a “black box” solution, and it will even provide underlying perception and development toolchains. This approach will undoubtedly be beneficial for OEMs with weak research and development capabilities. Compared with NVIDIA, Horizon Robotics has better local production and functional mass production capabilities. With independent R&D capability and differentiated competition, Horizon Robotics has recently been frequently favored by large host factories, so it is not surprising to locate and announce spot joint collaborations.
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