On January 14, Horizon and SAIC-GM-Wuling officially reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation, the two sides will rely on their respective technology accumulation and industrial resource advantages in the fields of automobiles and artificial intelligence, promote the continuous integration and innovation of advanced assisted driving (ADAS), automatic driving, on-board intelligent interaction and other fields, jointly explore new technologies for intelligent and networked vehicles, and lead the process of intelligent driving product innovation and industrial landing.
Shenyang, General Manager of SAIC-GM-Wuling (right), and Yu Kai, Founder and CEO of Horizon (left)
According to the strategic cooperation agreement between the two sides, Horizon will provide intelligent driving solutions with a full range of journey chips as the core, helping SAIC-GM-Wuling to accelerate the layout of the era of automobile intelligence. As early as the beginning of 2021, the two sides have carried out in-depth cooperation and made substantial progress. In the first half of 2022, Horizon Matrix Mono driver assistance solution based on the Journey 2 chip will begin to be installed in a number of SAIC-GM-Wuling models, and the Horizon Halo in-vehicle intelligent interaction solution based on Journey 2 will also be mass-produced on SAIC-GM-Wuling KiWi EV models.
Horizon Matrix Mono driver assistance solution
In order to meet the needs of the continuous upgrading of the intelligent driving experience, the two sides are also discussing the development of intelligent functions for higher-end models, and jointly creating multi-level automatic driving and continuously evolving on-board intelligent interactive functions. Among them, based on the Journey 5 chip, the two sides will work together to build a high-performance and large-scale intelligent computing platform to accelerate the large-scale mass production of high-level automatic driving functions.
Shenyang, general manager of SAIC-GM-Wuling, said: "In the future-oriented era of intelligent cars, car companies should create a new type of collaborative relationship with industry chain partners, be responsible for the user's use scenarios, drive development from data, and drive algorithms from experience, in order to truly realize the close integration of artificial intelligence and people, so that users have a better driving experience." Horizon is a pioneer of domestic forces in the field of automotive-grade AI chips, and through this strategic cooperation, it is expected that the two sides will form a stronger convergence force and polish a more cutting-edge intelligent driving solution for the automotive industry. "
Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon, said: "As the ecosystem of the intelligent automobile industry matures and improves, computing architecture, computing power configuration and software ecology have gradually become the key to driving user experience improvement. SAIC-GM-Wuling has strong technical achievement transformation strength and vehicle research and development experience, while Horizon has rich experience in mass production in the field of intelligent driving, which is highly complementary to saicel GM-Wuling' advantages. In the future, the two sides will carry out more in-depth exchanges and cooperation, continuously improve the intelligent driving function of automobiles, and lay a solid foundation for the development of automobile intelligence. ”
SAIC-GM-Wuling is a recognized automotive leader in the industry, with in-depth insight into industry trends and consumer needs, creating a number of hot-selling models. In 2021, SAIC-GM-Wuling achieved cumulative sales of 1.76 million units, an increase of 13.5% year-on-year, ranking first in the sales of national brand single car companies, and also the first national brand single car company in China to exceed 25 million in production and sales. With the deepening of the transformation of the "new four modernizations" of the automotive industry, SAIC-GM-Wuling actively leads the industrial transformation and cooperates with industrial partners to promote the research and development of automotive intelligent technology and ecological construction.
As a leading enterprise in automotive intelligent chips, Horizon continues to polish the basic technology platform with "chip + algorithm + tool chain" as the core, helping vehicle companies to continuously optimize the experience of intelligent driving products. Based on the vehicle intelligent computing platform based on Journey 5, Horizon launched the Horizon Matrix SuperDrive vehicle intelligent solution that integrates full-scenario automatic driving, vehicle-computer interaction and in-vehicle internal and external linkage experience, to meet the intelligent needs of full-scenario vehicles such as high-speed, urban area, parking and intelligent human-computer interaction. With the release of the Journey 5 chip, Horizon has become the only supplier in the industry that can provide a vehicle-wide intelligent chip solution covering all scenarios from L2 to L4.
Journey series automotive intelligent chips
Smart cars are computers on four wheels, and car smart chips are the "digital engines" of smart cars. Positioned in Tier-2, Horizon provides consumers with a beautiful new experience of intelligent driving with a flexible and open business cooperation model of soft and hard collaboration, flexible and open business cooperation model, and a wide range of industry partners. At present, Horizon is also the only enterprise in China to achieve mass production of automotive smart chips, and the shipment volume of Zhengcheng series chips has exceeded 1 million pieces. In the future, Horizon and SAIC-GM-Wuling will further embrace the new trend of automobile industry development, lead the innovation of intelligent vehicle technology, work together to build an open and win-win industrial ecology, and jointly promote the mass production and popularization of intelligent vehicles.