On April 24, Horizon held the 2024 Intelligent Driving Technology Product Launch Conference of "Journey Direction, Towards the High". Based on the era of intelligent driving, Horizon Robotics has released a new generation of on-board intelligent computing solutions, the Journey ®6 series, and the Horizon SuperDrive™ all-scenario intelligent driving solution, which fully opens the paradigm-level innovation of intelligent driving and accelerates the arrival of the era of equal rights in intelligent driving.
From PC to mobile Internet, the combination of software and hardware plays a key role in every industrial transformation. In the era of intelligent driving, the combination of software and hardware is also a necessary path to the endgame and the realization of value inclusiveness. The two intelligent driving technology products released this time are the strength of Horizon's top software and hardware combination of full-stack technical capabilities and the largest mass production experience, and also highlight Horizon's industry position in the first camp of intelligent driving technology companies.
At the press conference, Horizon officially announced the first batch of 10 mass-produced cooperative car companies and brands of the Journey 6 series, including SAIC Group, Volkswagen Group, BYD, Li Auto, GAC Group, Deep Blue Automobile, BAIC Group, Chery Automobile, Xingtu Automobile, VOYAH Automobile, etc., as well as a number of Tier1, software and hardware partners. The Journey 6 series will start the first pre-assembly production model delivery in 2024, and is expected to achieve mass production delivery of more than 10 models in 2025. At the same time, SuperDrive will enter into partnerships with a number of top Tier1 and automotive brands in the second quarter of 2024, launch a standard version of the production plan in the fourth quarter, and deliver the first production partnership model in the third quarter of 2025.
People-oriented, starting with the end in mind, the combination of software and hardware and full-stack technology drives intelligent driving to the endgame
Standing at an important juncture of intelligent driving towards the large-scale popularization of all scenarios, Horizon believes that the intelligent driving system will go through three stages of development from usable, easy to use to easy to use. However, the high-end intelligent driving system represented by the urban NOA in mass production has not yet fully reached the standard of "usable" in the eyes of users. From usable, easy to use to love, it is a comprehensive test of the ability of the software and hardware combination system, which not only requires the deep accumulation and application of forward-looking software algorithms, but also tests the mass production efficiency of software and hardware collaboration.
The development trend of intelligent driving system oriented to user needs
Horizon, which has a leading market position in the field of in-vehicle computing solutions, is actually a "software algorithm company in the guise of hardware". As early as 2016, Horizon took the lead in proposing the end-to-end evolution concept of autonomous driving, and has continued to make technological innovations and breakthroughs: in 2022, it proposed Sparse4D, an industry-leading end-to-end algorithm for autonomous driving perception, and in 2023, UniAD, the industry's first publicly published end-to-end autonomous driving model made by Horizon scholars, won the best paper in CVPR 2023. At the same time, Horizon has accumulated an end-to-end deep learning algorithm based on interactive games, which greatly improves the traffic efficiency and success rate of the intelligent driving system in complex traffic environments. In terms of hardware technology, Horizon Robotics' new generation of intelligent computing architecture BPU NASH is specially designed for large-parameter Transformers, which can create industry-leading computing efficiency with a high degree of software and hardware collaboration, and accelerate the application and popularization of end-to-end and interactive game algorithms.
Dr. Kai Yu, Founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, said: "The combination of software and hardware intelligent computing technology will enable every vehicle to have environmental awareness, human-computer interaction and decision-making control capabilities, making human life safer and better. Horizon starts with the end in mind, forward-looking layout of full-stack technology combining software and hardware, with software as the traction and hardware as the drive, to create a full-scene, full-ecology software-hardware combination intelligent driving system, and with the ultimate openness to create the ultimate efficiency, to achieve the end of intelligent driving. ”
Dr. Kai Yu, Founder and CEO of Horizon
Opening a new chapter of intergenerational upgrading, Journey 6 creates an optimal solution for full-level intelligent driving computing
As the only intelligent driving technology provider in China with full-level and full-scene intelligent driving mass production experience, Horizon Robotics has officially launched the industry's only series of computing solutions that meet the mass production of full-level intelligent driving - Journey 6 by combining the R&D of third-generation Journey products and the accumulation of 5 million sets of shipping experience, which also represents the key leap of Horizon's product research and development from single-point to serialization, and the Journey family has opened a new chapter in intergenerational upgrading.
From all-in-one machines to domain control, from active safety to full-scene intelligent driving, the Horizon Journey 6 series can cover all levels of intelligent driving applications. As a serialized in-vehicle intelligent computing solution, Journey 6 has a unified hardware architecture, a unified tool chain and a unified software stack, with the characteristics of same-generation, intergenerational compatibility and system optimization, and relies on a platform-based scalable computing architecture and a consistent, complete and mature intelligent driving mass production development platform to support the efficient development and flexible deployment of upper-layer applications, helping car companies achieve "one step faster" mass production efficiency.
The Journey 6 series has launched a total of six versions, including Journey 6B, Journey 6L, Journey 6E, Journey 6M, Journey 6H, and Journey 6P, which can flexibly configure computing solutions for different intelligent driving scenarios, all of which can provide the optimal solution that takes into account both performance and cost.
Facing the low-end intelligent driving market, Journey 6B reshapes the new active safety experience with the ultimate cost performance, and is committed to creating the industry's most cost-effective active safety all-in-one solution. Based on the Journey 6B, Horizon and Sony jointly released the world's first 17 million high-performance forward-looking perception solution, making active safety farther, wider and clearer. At the press conference, Horizon announced that Journey 6B has received intent to cooperate with a number of international and domestic Tier1s such as Bosch, Denso, NavInfo, Fretek and Youjia Innovation.
For the mid-end intelligent driving market, Horizon Robotics has launched the optimal solution for the cost-effective solution of inclusive urban areas - Journey 6M, and the optimal solution for high-speed NOA for the ultimate experience - Journey 6E, and provides AEC-Q104 automotive standard compliant SiP modules and Matrix 6 domain control reference designs to achieve lower power consumption and better system cost with ultra-high integration. At the press conference, Horizon officially announced that it had reached cooperation with a number of Tier1, software and hardware partners, and announced that by the second quarter of 2024, more than 50 ecological partners will launch quasi-production-grade products based on Journey 6E/M.
Facing the high-end intelligent driving market, Horizon Robotics has launched the Journey 6P, which is designed for a new generation of full-scene intelligent driving, with six product commanding heights, including high integration, high computing power, high efficiency, high processing capacity, high access capacity and high security, and is the culmination of advanced processor technology. With the support of powerful computing performance, a single Journey 6 flagship can support full-stack computing tasks such as perception, planning and decision-making, and control, which will redefine the computing efficiency of NOA in all scenarios.
From usable to easy to use and love-to-use, SuperDrive has created a high-end urban intelligent driving model room
Horizon Robotics released SuperDrive, an all-scenario intelligent driving solution, focusing on breakthroughs in anthropomorphic experience and creating an easy-to-use intelligent driving system 2.0. With the end-to-end perception architecture of dynamic, static, and OCC (Occupancy Occupancy Network) in one, and the data-driven interactive game algorithm, SuperDrive can take into account the scene pass rate, traffic efficiency and behavior anthropomorphism in any road environment, and can bring users an elegant and calm intelligent driving experience in complex urban scenarios such as congestion confluence, intersection interaction - dynamic Driveline, courtesy to cyclists, congestion lane change, and urban roundabout.
SuperDrive复杂场景体验突破
The end-to-end architecture of dynamic, static, and occupancy is an effective means to accurately restore the objective physical world. Under this architecture, the occlusion call rate is increased by 70%, the number of dynamic code lines is reduced by 90%, and the network load is reduced by 50%, effectively solving the problems of high latency, multiple rules, and heavy load in the current industry-aware architecture. The data-driven interactive game can bring more anthropomorphic optimal solutions, making SuperDrive flexibly handle complex traffic flows like an old driver, increasing the success rate of lane change by 50% and the intersection pass rate by 67% in congestion scenarios.
On the basis of top-level software algorithm technology, SuperDrive and Journey 6 Ultimate Edition have created the best high-end intelligent driving system combining software and hardware, so that the easy-to-use urban NOA solution can accelerate large-scale mass production and achieve everyone's accessibility. For car companies and industry chain partners, SuperDrive is committed to providing high-end intelligent driving model rooms, supporting the improvement of R&D and delivery efficiency through the flexible opening of full-stack technical capabilities, and accelerating the industry towards the endgame of high-end intelligent driving. At the press conference, Horizon announced that it had reached a cooperation with JOYNEXT and ZeroBeam Technology to create a mass-produced SuperDrive domain controller solution.
Intelligent driving pioneer standard journey - horizon press conference site production model exhibition
Since its establishment eight years ago, Horizon has not only provided the most efficient Journey family computing solution for the low, medium and high-end intelligent driving markets, but also created a full-scenario intelligent driving solution matrix. At the same time, Horizon Robotics adheres to its Tier2 industry positioning, linking more than 30 car companies and 200 upstream and downstream partners to build the most mature, efficient and open business ecosystem, and continuously promoting the performance improvement and cost optimization of intelligent driving systems at different levels.
Wang Chuanfu, chairman and president of BYD Group, attended the horizon press conference
At present, the intelligent driving industry is accelerating from a mass-production-oriented "all-dimensional altruistic" ecology to a user-oriented "public altruism" ecology.