On January 28, 2022, Tesla announced that it will start pushing a new version of the in-vehicle system OTA upgrade on the first day of the Chinese New Year. It is worth mentioning that this new version will be developed by the Chinese software team, and a series of specially customized new features have been added to the needs of the domestic market, including the NetEase Cloud Music APP, the real-time information display of road conditions along the navigation, and the custom vehicle icon color.
Among these new features, the most concerned by the outside world is obviously the "in-car KTV". As the name suggests, after upgrading this new version of the system, the large screen in the Tesla car can be transformed into a "jukebox" in the case of parking, for passengers to enjoy the fun of K songs.
In order to cooperate with this function, Tesla's official store yu also listed a dedicated TeslaMic wireless microphone peripheral. According to the information released on the official website, this wireless microphone named TeslaMic is equipped with a dynamic voice head, a built-in DSP chip to support anti-acoustic calling technology, and support a variety of sound modes. At the same time, it is also equipped with a special receiver as standard, which can be recognized by the car machine only by plugging in the USB interface in the car, eliminating the need for cumbersome settings.
However, in the relevant page of teslaMic wireless microphone, what attracts our attention is actually a row of italics below the product information. "This product is not intended for use in vehicles equipped with NVIDIA Tegra infotainment processors. You can view this information about your vehicle by clicking "Software" - "Additional Vehicle Information" in the menu. Please use this product while ensuring safety. ”
Yes, you read that right, the TeslaMic wireless microphone as Tesla official launch, adapted to their own vehicle entertainment system peripheral products, in fact, is not compatible with all models. Seeing this, do you feel that Tesla is a bit "unkind" and worried that his car has been "recruited"?
In fact, Tesla's statement about teslaMic wireless microphones does not stem from "discrimination" against specific models. On the contrary, it reflects Tesla's positive attitude towards its own in-vehicle system.
Why do we say that? You may be able to understand by looking at the following table.
Yes, the so-called "vehicle equipped with NVIDIA Tegra infotainment processor" actually refers to Tesla's early Model S and Model X launched from 2012 to March 2018. The "MCU1" in-car entertainment system they use is based on the NVIDIA Tegra3 master, and the system kernel corresponds to the ARM 32-bit instruction set. Even the most entry-level smartphones are better than that.
Only the early Model S and Model X used the MCU1 infotainment system
Because of this, since March 2018, Tesla has fully replaced the MCU2 in-car entertainment system based on the quad-core x86 processor. The graphics performance of this system is more than 10 times stronger than that of the previous generation, and the underlying instruction set has also changed dramatically, so it is natural to open up a huge gap with the previous generation in many functions.
The familiar Model 3 started with the MCU2, and the latest model already uses the MCU3
And it is worth mentioning that although the MCU2 was released at the end of 2017, it was actually officially equipped on the relevant models earlier. Because the Tesla Model 3, which shipped from 2017, and later the Model Y, have actually begun to use the MCU2 entertainment system. That is to say, if it is a Model 3 or Model Y, then you don't have to worry about using the oldest MCU in your car, because they have never been equipped with an MCU1 in the first place.
Not only that, while replacing the MCU2, Tesla also provided an official upgrade service for models equipped with MCU1. Owners don't need to change their cars, they can simply pay for an upgrade to replace the entire in-car entertainment system with MCU2, and get a series of new features including performance improvements, online streaming video, dashcam and sentry mode.
Even the old Model S or Model X has official upgrade channels to switch to MCU2
Of course, everyone knows that at the end of 2021, Tesla once again upgraded the in-car entertainment system of their models. The MCU3 is based on a customized AMD Ryzen™ processor and a RDNA2 architecture discrete graphics card with PS5 performance, which makes the current new model more than 50 times more than the computing power of the in-car entertainment system compared with the previous generation, and becomes the strongest performance level in the current in-car entertainment system.
In other words, although it must be admitted that the original MCU1 is indeed "cheap and old" in the present, on the one hand, it at least corresponds to the old model from 4 years ago; on the other hand, the positioning of the Model S and Model X itself also determines that their own ownership cannot be too large, plus Tesla is still providing official hardware upgrade services for MCU1. Therefore, we expect that the number of consumers who will not be able to enjoy the latest version of the system "K Song" due to MCU hardware limitations should actually be quite limited.
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