Jiwei Network reported that at the "Xinchi Talk" automotive chip media exchange meeting on January 18, Jiwei Network learned that the domestic automotive semiconductor company Xinchi Technology has completed its full range of "intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving, safety control, intelligent gateway" domain control computing power platform in less than 3 years, the highest level of certification and mass production of vehicle regulations, covering more than 70% of China's car factories, serving more than 250 customers, and obtaining more than 50 fixed points.
Xinchi Technology also revealed that the company will also release a functional safety ASIL-D grade vehicle control MCU chip in the first quarter of 2022, which will be a product that fills the gap in the domestic high-performance MCU car control chip.
The lack of cores brings valuable window period safety and reliability is the first meaning of the vehicle specification chip
Data show that by 2025, the global semiconductor market will exceed 400 billion, while China's automotive semiconductor market will reach 120 billion, doubling from the current level. The high-performance vehicle specification processor is the core driving force for the development of automotive electronics, and under this general trend, the lack of core also provides valuable window opportunities for Chinese manufacturers.
China is the world's automotive power, but Chinese automotive chips rarely enter the international mainstream market. Among them, the world's top 7 MCU suppliers occupy more than 90% of the market, while Chinese manufacturers have less than 3%.
Unlike consumer electronics, the barriers to automotive chips are very high. Consumer chips mainly focus on the three major indicators of performance, power consumption and cost, while automotive chips need to have reliability, safety, consistency and long-term effectiveness. The automotive electronics certification process is complex and requires a large investment. For example, the vehicle-grade chip should meet the functional safety standard ISO26262, the reliability standard AEC-Q series and other certifications, and the quality management system certification IATF16949.
Under the wave of intelligentization of the automobile, the automotive electronic and electrical architecture is changing from the traditional ECU to the current "domain controller" architecture, and will evolve to "central computing + regional control" in the future, Anderson Technology pointed out that only the improvement of the underlying architecture can support the new intelligent requirements of the automobile.
In this process, the automotive supply chain is also reshaping and changing, and the position of chip manufacturers has begun to move forward. Xinchi Technology said that the traditional automobile development process does not require the participation of chip companies, most of them use the standard components provided by Tier1, and the electronic system differentiation of mainstream models is small; now the automobile companies have strengthened in-depth exchanges with chip companies, chip companies have entered the market more than 16 months in advance, and the demand for differentiation has increased.
"Four-core in one, endowed with the soul of the car" High-level automatic driving is a long-term plan
As early as 2018, Xinchi Technology deeply laid out automotive chips. Xinchi Technology said that Xinchi Technology adheres to the intelligent core design concept of life safety as the core, and comprehensively balances the six dimensions of reliability, safety, long-term effectiveness, power consumption, price and performance.
The all-scenario products of Xinchi Technology cover four major areas: intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving, safety control and intelligent gateway. Among them, the X9 series of intelligent cockpit chips help the whole vehicle build an intelligent car driving and riding space. Its latest "one core, ten screens" Demo is impressive, which can be realized through X9U one chip, supporting up to 10 independent Full HD displays, including front-row instruments, central control screens, HUDs and multiple entertainment screens, enabling multi-screen sharing and interaction.
The latest "one core and ten screens" Demo display of XinChi Technology
G9 series intelligent gateway chip is a high-performance vehicle-grade automotive chip designed for a new generation of in-vehicle core gateways, which can meet the requirements of high functional safety level and high reliability. For autonomous driving, X-Chi Technology has launched the V9 series of chips to meet the growing demand for powerful computing power in the application of a new generation of intelligent driver assistance systems.
Xinchi believes that in addition to the deep accumulation of technology and experience, the cooperation ecology with upstream and downstream customers is also crucial, and the "Xinchi Customer Success Model" strives to fully reflect the local advantages of "designing responsive, open R&D platform, opening up upstream and downstream ecology and comprehensive customer support".
It is understood that on top of the core products, Singchi also cooperates with more than 200 ecological partners, covering operating systems, virtualization, tools, protocol stacks, HMIs and other aspects to jointly empower vehicle manufacturers. In the future, chips will increasingly participate in the design of smart cars, greatly releasing the imagination space of new car functions, reducing costs and improving user experience.
Xinchi Technology said, "L2+ is the era that is happening, L3-L5 is the era of the future, and recently Mercedes-Benz got the L3 certificate in Germany, which is exciting news, which shows that in 2023, L3 may enter mass production time, which is very consistent with the company's research and development rhythm." ”
As a supplier of vehicle-grade chips, ChipCom Technology has worked with Tier1 partners from the beginning of the design to provide the best chip performance and open up rich interfaces to them, which is not open to general chip manufacturers. In addition, X-Chi will also provide customers with a complete tool chain, giving them a way to implement the algorithm.
At present, ChipCom is the only four-in-one automotive chip enterprise in China, which has obtained AEC-Q100 reliability certification, ISO26262 ASIL D functional safety process certification, ISO26262 ASIL B functional safety product certification and national secret information security product certification.
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