Qualcomm Snapdragon series intelligent cockpit platform has stood firm in the automotive frontload market!
On November 29, Jidu announced that it will join hands with Baidu and Qualcomm to launch the first Qualcomm fourth-generation cockpit platform 8295 chip in China, which Jidu will be equipped with on its first mass production model, which is expected to be listed in 2023.
Founded in 2021, Jidu is the responsible company for Baidu's next car manufacturing.
On September 24 this year, Xia Yiping, CEO of Jidu Automobile, said on social media that he had entered the SIMUCar (simulated prototype car) stage. Its concept car will be on display at the Beijing Auto Show next April, with mass production in 2023.
Qualcomm plus smart cockpit market
It is understood that Qualcomm Snapdragon's fourth-generation intelligent cockpit chip 8295 adopts a 5nm process process, which is the same platform as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 used on mobile phones in terms of CPU, GPU and other architectures, which can be regarded as the Snapdragon 888 car specification version.
Qualcomm's 4th-generation cockpit platform features a 6th gen Qualcomm Kryo architecture CPU, a Qualcomm Hexagon DSP processor, a multi-core Qualcomm AI engine, a 6th gen Qualcomm Adrren architecture GPU, and a Qualcomm Spectra ISP.
In terms of computing power, the CPU computing power of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 exceeds 200k DMIPS, GPU computing power exceeds 3TFLOPS, and NPU's AI computing power reaches 30TOPS; while the CPU computing power of the third-generation platform SA8155 is 105k DMIPS, the GPU computing power is 1.1TFLOPS, and the AI computing power of NPU is only 8TOPS.
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The platform supports synchronous processing of multi-screen scenarios such as dashboards, cockpit screens, AR-HUDs, rear-seat displays, and electronic rearview mirrors, and the computing power of major computing units such as CPUs and GPUs is more than 50% higher than that of 8155, and the main line capacity is more than 100%.
In addition, there are media reports that Qualcomm's fourth-generation cockpit platform may be divided into three versions, including the entry-level performance level, the intermediate flagship level (Premiere) and the Supreme class (Paramount), and The first model of Jidu will use the Paramount version of the 8295 version.
From the perspective of the market, Qualcomm + Android is becoming the choice of more and more car companies.
Qualcomm released data showing that 20 of the world's 25 largest car companies have adopted the 3rd generation Snapdragon digital cockpit platform, that is, the 8155 series.
Overall, the influence of qualcomm Snapdragon series on the cockpit is comprehensive, its chip layout is very rich, and its voice in the automotive intelligent cockpit market is getting bigger and bigger.
At present, the mainstream models in the front-loading market have been equipped with Qualcomm's third-generation platform for mass shipments, namely:
First generation: Snapdragon 620A
Second generation: Snapdragon 820-820A
Third generation: Snapdragon 855-SA8155
Fourth generation: Snapdragon 888-SA8295
The first generation was the beginning of the layout.
The second-generation cockpit platform chip, the 820A, has won the recognition of a large number of OEMs, and has been shipped on the ideal ONE, Xiaopeng P7, G3i, Lynk & Co 05, Audi A4L, Skyline ME7 and other hot models.
After that, Qualcomm continued to increase its size, and quickly launched snapdragon's third-generation intelligent cockpit - 8155, which became the most successful product in the industry and is the standard of today's flagship models, such as Weilai ET7, Xiaopeng P5, Great Wall WEY Mocha and other flagship models are equipped with this product.
In other markets, Qualcomm Snapdragon also has a detailed layout.
For example, the Snapdragon 690 magic was changed to the Snapdragon 6359, which became the most entry-level 5G chip in the smart car market, and now it has been equipped with models such as BYD Han EV.
Overall, Qualcomm uses the Snapdragon series of chips of the Mobile Phone Android System + the rich Android native ecosystem to help the main engine factory create a good car system in a very short period of time, thus occupying most of the front-loading market of the smart car cockpit.
In fact, smart cars have entered the era of big fish eating small fish, in the past Geely, Zebra and other manufacturers and suppliers have also tried to develop a new intelligent cockpit system + ecology, but because of the huge amount of engineering, lack of software ecology, poor user experience, gradually into the predicament.
As for the established manufacturers, Texas Instruments, Renesas, NXP, have long been hanged.
Qualcomm said that due to the withdrawal of the largest competitor Intel, there is basically no opponent at present, Qualcomm invests 5 billion yuan per year to do IP research and development, and launches a flagship product every year, which can be reused in mobile phone SoC and on-board computing platforms, such a technology iteration speed no enterprise can keep up.
Facing the future, Qualcomm believes that the central integrated computing communication architecture is the development consensus of the automotive industry, so Qualcomm will take advantage of the monopoly position of the cockpit system market to increase the research and development of products that combine automatic driving and intelligent cockpit domain controllers into one, and the same computing platform takes into account the computing power needs of different functions.