On April 25, SemiDrive Technology held the 2024 spring conference at the Beijing International Automobile Exhibition to release a new generation of CPU and regional controller automotive chip product family. Kong Lei, Deputy Secretary of the Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Beijing Economic Development Zone, Zhang Peng, General Manager of Yiguo Investment, Zhao Peng, Chief Engineer of the Digital Center of Chery Automobile R&D Institute, Zhao Yongchao, Head of Intelligent IoT and Automotive Business Line of ARM Technology, and other guests attended the press conference.
Group photo of guests attending the 2024 Beijing Auto Show and SemiDrive Spring Conference
Kong Lei, Deputy Secretary of the Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, said in his speech: "SemiDrive Technology is a high-tech enterprise introduced and supported by Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, and it is also a leading enterprise in domestic automotive specification chips. SemiDrive is a perfect fit with the industrial ecology of the Economic Development Zone, and we will give full play to our resource and policy advantages to promote the resonance and win-win situation between enterprises and local resources to achieve greater development. Zhang Peng, general manager of ENIG, said that Xinchi is in the track of the key layout of ENIG, and ENIG will help the breakthrough of core technology with the power of capital.
Kong Lei, deputy secretary of the Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of Beijing Economic Development Zone, delivered a speech at the press conference
Zhao Peng, Chief Engineer of the Digital Center of Chery Automobile R&D Institute, said: "As a leading automotive chip company in China, SemiDrive Technology has performed well in leading the R&D and implementation of automotive chip products, and making overall planning for the future EE architecture, and is an excellent partner for automotive companies. Chery and SemiDrive have established a stable and in-depth cooperative relationship, and actively carry out innovative exploration and practice around core application fields such as intelligent cockpit and intelligent vehicle control. SemiDrive's series of products have been mass-produced on a number of Chery models. In the future, we will continue to work together to innovate on platforms such as cabin travel and parking integration based on the latest products released by SemiDrive. ”
Zhao Yongchao, Head of Intelligent IoT and Automotive Business Line of ARM Technology, said: "SemiDrive Technology has always been a very important partner of ARM Technology, and we give full play to our respective technological advantages to continuously explore new products that truly meet the market demand, so as to better contribute to the 'New Four Modernizations' of the automotive industry. In the future, the two parties will continue to work with partners in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to inject more innovative energy into automotive chips. ”
With the theme of "Central Region, 'Chip' Leads the Wisdom Line", Cheng Taiyi, CEO of SemiDrive Technology, shared his views on the evolution of automotive electronic and electrical architecture and the development of automotive chips at the press conference.
Cheng Taiyi, CEO of SemiDrive Technology, delivered a speech at the press conference
He pointed out: "Under the transformation trend of intelligent, electrified and software-defined vehicles, automotive chips have ushered in new development opportunities and challenges. Providing core support around the evolution of automotive electronic and electrical architecture is the basic principle of SemiDrive core product planning and business focus. ”
At present, SemiDrive has achieved industry-leading mass production results in the field of intelligent cockpit and intelligent vehicle control, with more than 4.5 million pieces of its full range of products being mass-produced and shipped, covering more than 40 mainstream models, serving more than 90% of China's OEMs and some international mainstream car companies.
Launched the "1+N" central computing + regional control architecture
Announced pioneer CPU and next-generation zonal controller family
At the press conference, SemiDrive first launched the "1+N" central computing + regional control architecture. One central computing platform CCU provides centralized computing power support for automotive intelligence, and N flexible and configurable regional controllers ZCU are used to adapt to the needs of different models.
Under the "1+N" architecture, SemiDrive officially released the pioneer-level central computing processor X9CC. X9CC is a multi-core heterogeneous computing platform designed for central computing, with a computing power of up to 200KDMIPS, integrating a variety of high-performance computing cores in a single chip, including 24 Cortex-A55 CPUs, 12 Cortex-R5F CPUs, 2 NPUs, 4 GPUs, 4 Vision DSPs, and a Crypto engine that supports national cryptography algorithms.
SemiDrive's unique UniLink Framework provides high-bandwidth, low-latency data exchange between multiple systems, as well as a standard and easy-to-use programming interface, which greatly reduces the difficulty of multi-system integration and development. The X9CC can support up to six independent systems on a single chip, including entertainment and navigation, LCD instruments, central gateways, intelligent driving, intelligent vehicle control, and information security. According to the software deployment, X9CC can support the flexible configuration of each computing core in different systems, and reasonably allocate computing resources.
At the same time, to meet the diversified configuration requirements of the zone controller (ZCU) under the new generation EE architecture, SemiDrive has also launched a new generation of ZCU product family, covering I/O-rich, control fusion and computing-intensive zone controllers, respectively for core application scenarios such as body control, body + chassis + power cross-domain fusion, and super power domain control.
This zone controller product family includes E3119/3118, E3650 and other SemiDrive E3 series products in the pipeline.
At the press conference, SemiDrive focused on ZCU's flagship product, E3650. The E3650 uses the latest ARM Cortex R52+ high-performance lockstep multi-core cluster, supports virtualization, nonvolatile memory (NVM) up to 16MB, has large-capacity SRAM, and more abundant available peripheral resources, solves the pain points encountered in the current vehicle electrical architecture design, and supports the implementation of vehicle electronic and electrical architecture with higher integration and wider configuration.
On the E3650, SemiDrive has upgraded the fully self-developed SSDPE (Super Speed Data Packet Engine) hardware communication acceleration engine, which can achieve zero data packet loss when all CAN FDs work at the same time, effectively reducing the CPU load and improving the communication throughput.
In response to the growing demand for information security, the E3650 also integrates the Xuanwu Super Security HSM information security module, which meets the information security level of ISO 21434, Evita Full and above, and better supports the models to go overseas.
此外,E3650还满足AEC-Q100 Grade 1和ISO 26262 ASIL D功能安全等级。
Embrace large models and open a new era of AI cockpits
With the release of new products, the complete layout of SemiDrive in the field of intelligent cockpit and intelligent vehicle control has been fully displayed. In the field of intelligent cockpit, SemiDrive embraces large models and opens a new era of AI cockpit.
The automotive cockpit has undergone an evolution from digital to integrated information display, and is gradually realizing the AI cockpit. With the X9 cabin core series products, SemiDrive comprehensively covers the cockpit processor needs of various eras, including entry-level to flagship-level cockpit application scenarios such as instrumentation, IVI, cockpit domain control, and cabin parking integration, and is actively leading the product development of AI cockpit.
Released in 2023, the X9SP is the first generation of SemiDrive's AI cockpit, with 8TOPS NPU computing power, realizing the local deployment and acceleration of AI algorithms. At present, the X9SP can support multi-modal perception in the car and cloud large model interaction, and the AI cockpit based on SemiDrive X9SP was demonstrated at the press conference, and intelligent functions such as user emotion recognition, gesture interaction, intelligent navigation, active recommendation, and automatic generation of call summaries can be smoothly realized.
The new generation of X9CC has a higher-performance NPU unit, which can realize the hybrid deployment of large models local + cloud. In the future, SemiDrive will further launch the AI cockpit processor X10, which will more efficiently support the Transformer architecture and the pure end-side deployment of large models, bringing users a safer, more efficient, and more personalized AI cockpit experience.
Up to now, the shipment of X9 series cockpit processors has exceeded 3 million pieces, and the models equipped with X9 series chips under Chery, SAIC, Changan, GAC, BAIC, Dongfeng Nissan, Dongfeng Honda and other car companies have been mass-produced. With the advent of the AI cockpit era, it is believed that the intelligent cockpit processor of SemiDrive will usher in a broader development space and provide innovative products and services for more car companies.
From core control to advanced intelligence, it leads the high-end automotive MCU
In the field of intelligent vehicle control, with the release of a new generation of regional controller product family, SemiDrive has further improved its strategic layout in high-performance automotive MCUs. From core control to advanced intelligence, SemiDrive E3 series control core products are leading the local high-end automotive MCU track.
In terms of product performance, the E3 series products are ahead of similar competitors for the 1-2 generations, and the software and hardware have achieved the highest functional safety level at the same time; in mass production, the E3 series has achieved more "volume" than the "volume", which can save customers 3-5 months of development cycle; at the same time, the E3 series can support customized service needs and create differentiated solutions for customers.
At present, the E3 series products have been widely used in core domain control fields such as zone control, body control, electric drive, BMS battery management, intelligent chassis, and ADAS intelligent driving, with shipments exceeding 1.5 million pieces. With the mass production of the new generation of ZCU product family, the E3 series will further consolidate its leading position in the field of intelligent vehicle control.
At the end of the press conference, Cheng Taiyi, CEO of SemiDrive Technology, said that in the future, SemiDrive will continue to provide core support for global automotive companies with innovative technologies and products, help more car companies accelerate the mass production of smart products, and let more people enjoy the intelligent travel experience faster.