On September 26, 2020, at the Beijing Auto Show, Horizon unveiled some new products and announced some new features. Here are some highlights:
- Journey 3 Chip Released
The Journey 3 chip uses 16-nanometer technology, has 5 Tops of AI computing power, typical power consumption of 2.5 W, and supports advanced assisted driving, intelligent cockpit, automatic parking, crowdsourced high-precision maps, and other application scenarios.
Although the Journey 3 and Journey 2 chips are both built on Horizon’s self-developed BPU 2.0 architecture, with a slight increase in computing power, the Journey 2 chip only supports two video input signals, while the Journey 3 chip can support up to six. These six signals can be four surround-view cameras, a front-facing single camera, and a rear camera. Based on this more extensive perception information, vehicles equipped with Journey 3 chips can achieve higher-level assisted driving and visual fusion perception automatic parking.
In addition, on the Journey 3 chip, customers can use Horizon algorithm samples, AI chip toolchains, and the full set of tools needed for application development.
- Expected Shipments of 100,000 Units for the Journey 2 This Year
Horizon officially launched the Journey 2 chip in August 2019. Changan Automobile and Horizon jointly developed the intelligent cockpit NPU computing platform based on this chip, which was equipped on their new model UNI-T launched this year.
In addition to being used to identify surrounding vehicles for assisted driving, visual perception technology has a lot of imagination space in the field of intelligent cockpits.
With this chip, UNI-T not only realizes DMS driver fatigue monitoring but also wakes up the voice assistant by recognizing lip movements in noisy environments.
In addition, the Journey 2 chip has already been put into mass production on Chery Ants to achieve L2 level assisted driving.
Horizon revealed that the Journey 2 chip has successfully signed mass production contracts for a two-digit number of targeted models, so there will be more and more models equipped with Horizon chips on the market in the future.
- Journey 5
At this press conference, Horizon also previewed the Journey 5 chip, which will be released in 2021. There are two versions of the Journey 5, the Journey 5 and Journey 5P, with computing power of 96 Tops and 128 Tops, power consumption of 20 W and 35 W, respectively. Both chips support video signals of more than 16 routes.
- NaviNet visual positioning and mapping solution
To improve the collection speed of high-precision maps, Horizon has launched NaviNet crowdsourcing collection solution, similar to Mobileye’s REM, which achieves sub-meter high-precision positioning through visual positioning.
In April of this year, Horizon has already completed the deployment of thousands of buses in South Korea, and SK Telecom completed the collection of road features and real-time dynamic updating of map information through on-board environment sensing algorithm.
- Guangqi version of Journey 3 released
This chip is deeply optimized through software and hardware joint optimization based on the deep learning network adopted by Guangqi Group, and function module optimization is carried out according to the development requirements of Guangqi mass-production models. It is planned to be mass-produced in future models.
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