As the global automotive industry moves towards the new four modernizations, automotive products are changing from traditional means of transportation to "smart cars", and consumers' cognition of automobiles is gradually changing from "single means of transportation" to "third space". Therefore, the automotive intelligent cockpit will also usher in a broader prospect.
On December 6, 2021, Egatong Technology, Core Qing Technology and auto parts ecological partners Desay SV, Neusoft Group and Beidou Zhilian signed strategic cooperation agreements. All parties will create a leading high-end digital cockpit platform around the Dragon Eagle One intelligent cockpit chip (hereinafter referred to as "Dragon Eagle One") and the ECARX Automotive Service Core Universal Operating System-level Software Framework (hereinafter referred to as "EAS Core") to build an advanced cockpit industry ecology.
This cooperation will also effectively promote the integration and efficiency improvement of upstream and downstream technologies in the industrial chain, create a broader and higher quality intelligent cockpit product ecology, and bring a smarter and more personalized travel experience to car companies and users.
At present, technology is driving the automotive industry into an unprecedented era, and the trend of electrification and networking is rapidly evolving. With the penetration of high-performance computing and automotive intelligence increasing year by year, the advanced digital cockpit is gradually becoming an important label for the next generation of cars.
Shen Ziyu, Chairman and CEO of EGATONG Technology and Chairman of Core-Fuel Technology, said: "E-Coffee-Tech and Core-Fuel Technology are committed to bringing breakthrough software and hardware solutions to the automotive intelligent industry. The high-end digital cockpit solution with EAS Core and Longying No.1 as the core not only lays a solid foundation for ecological partners and car companies to quickly develop intelligent cockpit functions and products with unique competitive advantages, but also opens up new possibilities for the high-end digital cockpit industry ecology. In the future, we also look forward to more partners working with us to promote the high-quality development of the high-end digital cockpit industry. ”
Based on the experience of mass production and development of millions of models in the field of intelligent cockpit, EGATONG Technology will build advanced computing power to meet the needs of contemporary intelligent cockpits based on Longying 1, and provide partners with a cross-platform universal operating system-level software framework EAS Core. EAS Core has the service capabilities and scalable architecture of end-cloud integration, provides more than 4,000 API interfaces and complete development kits and tools to meet the needs of vehicle-level security, and creates a complete service system for developers throughout the life cycle.
Integrating the advanced computing power of Longying No. 1 and integrating the underlying operating system-level core software framework EAS Core, the high-end digital cockpit solution created by Egatong Technology will effectively help partners and car companies to efficiently develop customized intelligent cockpit functions or products, reduce development costs and cycles, ensure safety and reliability, and accelerate mass production. The next generation of smart cockpit products developed on this solution is expected to be mass-produced and loaded in 2023.
At present, the trend of automotive intelligence has been very obvious, and the two core competitiveness of automotive intelligence are intelligent cockpit and intelligent driving. For the smart cockpit, in order to achieve natural communication, the chip is a very important part. Based on the deep insight into the development of the industry, Yijiatong Technology actively laid out the field of high-end automotive chips as early as 2018, and joined hands with Anmou China to establish Core Optimus Technology.
In October 2021, the first domestic vehicle-grade 7nm intelligent cockpit chip Dragon Eagle No. 1 independently designed by Core Qing Technology successfully streamed it. Based on the native design of smart cockpit requirements, Dragon Eagle One complies with the AEC-Q100 standard, with a built-in ASIL-D safety island and matches the high bandwidth and low latency LPDDR5 memory channel.
The successful snap-out return of "Dragon Eagle No. 1" means that Yijiatong Technology has broken through the technical barriers of high-end chips for intelligent vehicles, which is a landmark milestone event in the field of automotive intelligence, and the beginning of a new chapter of domestic high-end vehicle-grade chips. It is reported that the 7-nanometer intelligent cockpit chip "Dragon Eagle One" integrates the ultra-large-scale SoC chip with 8.8 billion transistors, which will be mass-produced next year and carried on the car as planned, achieving the first breakthrough of domestic chips in the field of high-end intelligent cockpits in automobiles.
It is worth mentioning that "Dragon Eagle One" meets the needs of the Chinese market and local car companies, and the chip has a built-in information security engine that conforms to the national secret algorithm to escort the information security of this smart cockpit chip. In addition, in terms of reliability, the built-in safety island design that conforms to the ASIL-D standard and reaches the AEC-Q100 Grade 3 level; powerful CPU, GPU, VPU, ISP, DPU, DSP cluster, NPU (neural network processor), and the matching high-bandwidth low-latency LPDDR5 memory channel provides all-round computing power support for the application of the intelligent cockpit, and the measured performance catches up with similar products in the world.
According to the latest data from AutoForecast Solutions (hereinafter referred to as "AFS"), as of December 5, due to the shortage of chips, the cumulative production reduction in the Chinese auto market has reached 1.982 million units, and the cumulative production reduction in the global auto market has reached 10.122 million units. According to AFS forecast, the Chinese auto market will reduce production by 2.148 million units this year, accounting for 19% of the total global production cut.
As domestic auto head enterprises have focused on the layout of the intelligent automobile industry chain and increased the strength and depth of independent supply chains, the dependence on imported automotive chips is expected to gradually decrease. As a leading provider of automotive-grade chips in China, Core Engine Technology has determined the product route covering all scenarios of intelligent car applications from the beginning of its establishment. Smart cockpit chips, autonomous driving chips, and automotive CPU chips go hand in hand, and comprehensive efforts are made to inject surging vitality into China's automotive chip market.
Finally: The current penetration rate of new cars at the level of cockpit intelligent configuration in the Chinese market is about 48.8%, and it is expected to exceed 75% by 2025, which is higher than the assembly rate level of the global market. According to relevant agencies, the scale of China's smart cockpit market will continue to grow, and it will exceed 100 billion yuan by 2025.
The potential size of the market means that there are greater business opportunities in the future. At the same time, it is not difficult to predict that its upstream and downstream industries will also usher in an outbreak in the future, and chips, as an important part, naturally attract much attention. The strategic cooperation agreement signed by Yijiatong Technology, Core Qing Technology and auto parts ecological partners Desay SV, Neusoft Group and Beidou Zhilian can be said to be a strong combination, which will help boost the rapid development, iteration and breakthrough of China's automotive intelligent industry, and promote the entire automotive industry to a new stage.
(Photo/Article, Mao Hyatt, China News Agency)