"It is not that the recent chip shortage, chip fever, to do this, in 2018 YiJiatong began to lay out high-end car chips, and joined hands with Anmou China to establish Core Qing Technology", Shen Ziyu, chairman and CEO of Yi Jia Tong Technology and chairman of Xin Qing Technology, emphasized the persistence and foresight in automotive chips.
Yijiatong Technology is an automotive intelligent technology company, which was co-founded by Li Shufu and Shen Ziyu, chairman of Geely Automobile, in 2016. It has set up branches and R&D centers in Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Dalian and Gothenburg, Sweden, and received strategic investments from Baidu, Haina Asia Venture Capital Fund and China State-owned Capital Venture Capital Fund in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
On December 6, Egatong Technology and its subsidiary Core Qing Technology signed cooperation agreements with Desay SV, Neusoft Group and Beidou Zhilian respectively. According to Yijiatong, in order to promote the high-quality development of the high-end digital cockpit industry, Yijiatong 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 common operating system-level software framework EAS Core.
Create a high-end digital cockpit platform
Yijiatong Technology and Core Qing Technology signed strategic cooperation agreements with Desay SV, Neusoft Group and Beidou Zhilian. All parties will focus on the Dragon Eagle One intelligent cockpit chip and EAS Core, create a leading high-end digital cockpit platform, and jointly build an advanced cockpit industry ecosystem.
Based on the mass production R&D experience in the field of smart cockpits, EGATON Technology will build the 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 full-life cycle service system for developers.
The four parts manufacturers that have reached cooperation have in-depth cooperation with xiaopeng, ideal, Changan, Great Wall and other automobile brands, basically covering 60% to 70% of the share of China's independent brands. Therefore, these companies intend to jointly build China's automotive intelligent cockpit platform solutions, and serve more joint venture brands and foreign manufacturers in the future.
Shen Ziyu said that similar to the Android system in the field of mobile phones, smart cars will also appear in the future with a universal operating system platform, and then develop different functions and experiences. If Yijiatong cooperates with Companies such as Desay SV, it will certainly promote the integration and efficiency of upstream and downstream technologies in the industrial chain, and then quickly create an ecosystem of EAS Core universal operating system-level software framework.
"We do chips and underlying software, similar to Qualcomm and Android. Desay SV, Neusoft Group and Beidou Zhilian cover 60% to 70% of the share of China's own brand car companies, plus the share of Geely Automobile served by Yijiatong, the four companies cover nearly 80% of the share, and we can work together to build a Chinese software platform. Shen Ziyu said.
It is reported that the new generation of intelligent cockpit products developed based on this solution will be mass-produced and loaded in 2023.
At present, China's cabin intelligent configuration has a huge potential scale, and this means that there are greater business opportunities in the future. At the same time, with the gradual increase in sales of new energy vehicles, the upstream and downstream industries of the intelligent cockpit will also usher in an outbreak in the future.
In this signing, Yijiatong, Core Qing Technology and the three parties signed a contract separately, which can be called a strong combination. With independent research and development in the two major fields of chips and operating systems, Yijiatong Technology has the basic conditions for the development of "Android" in the automotive circle.
Some results have been achieved, and continued efforts are needed
Shen Ziyu said that with the continuous development of science and technology, the traditional mechanical attributes of cars have gradually been subverted, the screen has become larger and larger, the car networking system has become more and more complex, and the car has begun to be endowed with more and more functions. This series of developments has also made more people realize that whether it is a button or a touch screen is no longer safe, voice interaction will become an important part of the car use scenario. As one of the core technologies of the Internet of Vehicles, the battle for on-board voice interaction has gradually entered a white-hot state. In this regard, the on-board system developed by Yijiatong Technology realizes a communication mode more like real people's communication in terms of voice interaction.
In the GKUI in-vehicle system developed and built by EGATO Technology for Geely, EGATONG Technology uses iFLYTEK's iFLYTEK 3.0 speech module, and the speech recognition rate in Mandarin is as high as 97%. Moreover, the voice interaction function of the system can realize the functions of making calls, opening the skylight, navigation, air conditioning, etc., and also supports interrupting technology at any time. Moreover, when you perform voice operations, you do not need to look away from the road ahead, improving the safety of driving. In addition, Yijiatong Technology also developed the Galaxy OS system for Geely Xingyue L. Shen Ziyu said that by constantly exploring and optimizing new ways of vehicle-machine interaction, Yijiatong Technology empowers the voice interaction of Xingyue L without multiple rounds of wake-up, and will also conduct real-time semantic analysis of the main driver's voice, and can directly execute complex interactive instructions with variables, so that "there is something to say, there is a response". Moreover, this voice interaction function is not affected by the network, even in the case of offline and online parallel, it will not be affected by the voice interaction effect.
In the future, Yijiatong will not only continue to build vehicle and machine systems for Geely models, but also provide more car and machine solutions for more automobile manufacturers. The new generation of smart cockpit products developed based on this solution is expected to be mass-produced and loaded in 2023, and the results are worth looking forward to.
Although Yijiatong has achieved certain results so far, in the face of global chip shortage, Longying-1 can only solve part of the problem. Because Chip Technology does not have chip manufacturing capabilities, Dragon Eagle One is foundry by TSMC, and the chip also uses ARM's public architecture.
If you want to completely get rid of the chip restrictions that china is subject to, you still need more investment from more enterprises and time to precipitate. Yijiatong has taken a big step towards innovation, and we look forward to it giving us more surprises in the future.