Author | Guan Xuejun
Source | Car selection network
When the U.S. Department of Defense proposed sanctions against Chinese high-tech companies to ensure the U.S. lead over China, Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holding Group, stood up with a "Dragon Eagle One" 7nm vehicle specification chip. So far, Li Shufu has not only broken the blockade of the Americans, but may even allow Chinese companies to change the pattern of the world's automobile industry from the perspective of technological progress.
Core Qing Technology released the "Dragon Eagle One" 7nm vehicle specification grade chip last week of great significance, marking that at the time of the fierce game between China and the United States around the chip, when there was a shortage of automotive chips around the world, China broke through the card neck project in the field of high-range vehicle specification chips. According to reports, in the third quarter of 2022, "Dragon Eagle One" will achieve mass production and will be installed in batches before the end of the year, the first model is Geely's model, and the next geely's popular model will also be equipped with chips from Core Engine Technology. At the same time, there is news that many car companies are ready to adopt "Dragon Eagle One". In other words, Li Shufu will not only become the first boss in the industry to get out of the dilemma of smart cockpit chips, but also the boss who will permanently get rid of the chip dilemma in this field, and open up the pain points that restrict the development of the industry.
In the field of chips, Li Shufu is buried too deeply. According to information from Tianyancha and other aspects, Core Qing Technology settled in Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone in 2018, jointly funded by companies such as Yijiatong Technology and Anmou China, and has branches in Beijing, Shanghai and the United States, focusing on the design, development and sales of advanced automotive electronic chips. ECARX Technology ("ECARX") is an automotive intelligent technology company strategically invested and independently operated by Geely Holding Group. Yijiatong Technology focuses on core technology products such as automotive chips, intelligent cockpits, intelligent driving, high-precision maps, big data and IoV cloud platforms, and continues to build an industry-leading intelligent network open platform. At present, the Jike Intelligent Ecosystem (referred to as GKUI) developed by Egatong Technology for Geely Automobile has more than 2.2 million 4G online users, becoming the fastest growing intelligent network system in the industry, and will continue to grow with more than 1 million users per year. After 4 years of growth, Yijiatong Technology has become a leader among many technology companies invested by Geely Strategically. At this time, perhaps no one said that Li Shufu was a farmer anymore, and the definition of Geely was no longer a traditional car company.
The reason why the significance of the 7nm vehicle specification chip is extraordinary is that the requirements of the car specification chip for the use environment are much higher than those in other fields, which is incomparable to electronic products such as mobile phones. If the mobile phone system has a problem, it is at most a shutdown, but if the car system has a problem, it may involve life and safety issues, so the problem of downtime is never allowed. In other words, if China can produce vehicle-grade 7nm chips, will 7nm chips used in other fields still be a problem? Perhaps the US Department of Defense never dreamed that the bottleneck of the 7nm chip was first broken by Li Shufu, a private Chinese automobile entrepreneur. Standing in this context, li Shufu's contribution to the country cannot be overestimated.
As far as the automobile industry is concerned, the trend of automobile intelligence is already irreversible, and it has become the commanding heights for all multinational companies to compete. For Geely, which already has the ability to develop autonomous driving systems, getting a high-process chip marks that Geely has mastered the dominance of the development of autonomous driving software and hardware. Looking at the global auto companies, there are no companies with such capabilities. In the history of the world's automobile development, cases of changing the position of the industry because of a technological leadership abound, and companies that have gained leadership in the field of directional technology have become industry leaders unless there are problems in safety and finance.
When China joined the WTO, the cry of "wolves are coming" resounded throughout the industry. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of China's accession to the WTO, China's automobile industry not only did not fall down, but instead achieved a counterattack. Under the background of the epidemic, chip shortage and sluggish consumption, Chinese brands have not only increased their market share, but also entered the high-end car market. If this is just a breakthrough in quantity, then qualitatively, we have achieved (or partially achieved) the transcendence of multinational companies in new energy vehicles, in the field of intelligent driving, and in terms of business models. Nowadays, Li Shufu has come up with the "Dragon Eagle One" 7nm vehicle specification-level chip, marking that China's automotive industry is occupying a leading position in the field of automotive AI and accelerating forward, and some of the original leading multinational companies will inevitably be left behind in this technological change, and the pattern of the world automobile industry will change as a result.
At present, China's car companies involved in chip manufacturing also have the Great Wall, BYD, etc., in the chip leadership battle, Geely is obviously in a leading position. In fact, the car of the future will be an AI system, a new ecosystem, and only by mastering the leading chip can people's beautiful dreams become a reality. It is believed that the advent of "Dragon Eagle One" will help Geely accelerate its progress on the new intelligent track and lay the foundation for a sustained lead. Li Shufu is undoubtedly the first person in the field of high-tech chips to break the rules of the car, in order to record this historical fact, we have selected Mr. Li Shufu as the news figure of the week in this issue.
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