From June 27th to 29th, 2022, the China Automotive Supply Chain Congress and the First China New Energy Intelligent Connected Vehicle Ecological Conference were held in Wuhan. Leaders from domestic automotive industry enterprises, industry experts and scholars, and government representatives gathered to discuss “Integrated Innovation, Green Development- Building A New Ecology for China’s Automotive Industry”.
Founder and CEO of Black Sesame Technologies, Danjizhang, attended the conference and delivered a keynote speech on “The Mass Production Road of Domestic High-Capacity Chips”, exploring architecture innovation and how to promote the industry forward by discussing the localization and regionalization trends in the current automotive supply chain.
A Safe and Reliable Regional Supply Chain is the Guarantee for High-Speed Innovative Development
Affected by various factors such as the global pandemic, the international situation, rising raw material prices, and chip shortages, the automotive supply chain faces many challenges, and the regionalization of the industrial chain development is becoming more prominent. Ensuring the resilience and safety of the supply chain has become critical to the current development of the automotive industry.
Danjizhang stated that in the field of intelligent electric vehicles, Chinese car companies are leading the world in terms of development speed, and a safe and reliable local supply chain system is the key to supporting the rapid technology iteration of China’s independent brand car companies.
He introduced that in localization, Black Sesame Technologies has developed the core chip for intelligent driving and jointly built a domestic domain controller platform with upstream and downstream suppliers in the domestic industry, with the hope of achieving 100% domestic production in the future.
Chip Architecture Innovation is the Basis for the Intelligent Driving Technology Revolution
In the next 3-5 years, intelligent driving will usher in a high-speed development period, creating huge opportunities for the automotive industry. CICC predicts that by 2025, the penetration rate of higher-level automatic driving will reach 65.5% and the demand for intelligent driving chips will be nearly 14 million units.
Danjizhang believes that intelligent driving requires an intelligent foundation, including a data platform, innovative electronic and electrical architecture, a powerful computing platform, mature and reliable components, and software that can be iterated quickly. Chip architecture innovation is the basis for the intelligent driving technology revolution.
From the PC era to the mobile phone era, and now to the automotive era, computing platforms have evolved around real scene demands, and chip architecture has undergone enormous innovation. In the era of intelligent cars, autonomous driving chips generally integrate AI computing, image processing GPU, audio processing DSP, deep learning acceleration unit NPU, information security, and functional safety functions in one SoC chip system. The chip functions become more comprehensive, and the technological evolution of intelligent driving requires support from high-capacity chips.
The Mass Production Road of Black Sesame Technologies’ High-Capacity Chip A1000
The chip for autonomous driving in the automobile industry requires advanced packaging, large-scale heterogeneity, security mechanisms, core IP, isolation technology, multi-chip high-speed, low-latency interconnection architecture technology, etc., and it is a long-term process to achieve mass production. Nevertheless, Danjizhang believes that China has a great opportunity to become a global leader in this automobile revolution. Meanwhile, Heizhima Intelligence is striving to achieve this goal.
As a leading enterprise in the development of autonomous driving computing chips and platforms, Heizhima Intelligence has established a complete customer empowerment system including chips, algorithms, data, software and tools. Using its own technological advantages, product system, open ecology and flexible business model, it helps customers create differentiated products.
Heizhima Intelligence is the first domestic autonomous driving chip company to have obtained functional safety expert certification, functional safety process certification, product certification and ASPICE certification. Based on the independently developed two core IPs, the Huashan No.2 A1000 series chip has a computing power of 58 TOPS (INT 8) -116 TOPS (INT 4), and is the first domestically produced mass-produced autonomous driving computing chip for car regulations.
In May of this year, Heizhima Intelligence reached a platform-level strategic cooperation with Jiangqi Group, and many mass-produced vehicles under the Sihao brand will be equipped with Huashan No. 2 A1000 chips. More car models equipped with the Huashan No. 2 A1000 series chips will be released soon.
Danjizhang stated that the open domestic high-performance computing platform will drive the development of China’s local automobile supply chain. Based on the concept of “open cooperation and value co-creation”, Heizhima Intelligence actively participates in building an open domestic ecological system, and will continue to work with partners to empower the new ecology of intelligent driving, and promote the development of the local autonomous driving industry with its research and development capabilities.
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