Intel and Extreme Krypton official announcement cooperation: will launch the world's first L4 level autonomous vehicle

Tramway news: On Tuesday, local time, at the just-opened Global Consumer Electronics Show CES 2022, Intel's autonomous driving arm Mobileye said that it plans to cooperate with Zeekr, a pole krypton supported by Geely Holdings, to launch the world's first all-electric vehicle with L4 autonomous driving capability in China in 2024, and will eventually be launched in the global market.

Judging from the exposed trailer, the new car with L4 self-driving capabilities will be an SUV that will be powered by the Mobileye Drive platform, including calculations, software and maps.

According to public information, the platform will use six Mobileye EyeQ5High chips of True Redundancy software architecture to handle Mobileye's driving strategy and open collaboration model of mapping technology.

The new car is built on the Geely SEA platform, and the two sides will effectively integrate software technology. At the same time, Mobileye will strengthen its China-related R&D capabilities, build a local data center, and strengthen its local team to further support rapid growth in China.

Anamon Shashua, President and CEO of Mobileye, said: "The expansion of our partnership reflects the close collaboration between Mobileye and Zeekr in the future of mobility, and Zeekr's confidence in Mobileye as a technology partner demonstrates our ability to achieve common goals and further strengthen our industry leadership. ”

Intel said last month that it plans to spin off some of Mobileye's businesses in its initial public offering. The company desperately needs funds to build a chip factory to catch up with competitors such as TSMC. Geely recently explored making cars in South Korea that can be exported to the United States duty-free, according to foreign media reports last month.

Mobileye also said Tuesday it was deepening its partnership with Ford Motor Co. The companies said Ford will use Mobileye's roadmap data system in a future version of Ford's "BlueCruise," which comes from all road vehicles powered by Mobileye hardware, which allows hands-free driving in certain situations.

Mobileye said Volkswagen will also begin using some of Mobileye's mapping data products for driver assistance features in its cars, such as automatic lane keeping.

On Tuesday, Mobileye also released the next generation of car specification-level chips, named "EyeQ Ultra", using a 5nm process process, with a computing power of 176 TOPS and an actual power consumption of less than 100w. The chip's biggest selling point is the low power consumption, which is becoming increasingly important as autonomous driving systems compete with drive systems for the limited battery capacity of electric vehicles.

The company said that the prototype of the chip will be ready next year and is expected to be used in car production in 2025, and the chip is likely to be installed on the full range of extreme krypton models in the future.