Horizon Reorganizes Intelligent Driving Algorithm Team to Focus on High-Level Intelligent Driving and
TapTechNews July 10th news, according to the report of LatePost tonight, the self-driving computing solution company Horizon has reorganized its intelligent driving algorithm team at the beginning of this month, and will put more energy into researching and developing high-level intelligent driving, which may become the key to opening up the new generation of computing solution Journey 6 series market.
The intelligent driving algorithm team of Horizon belonged to the software platform product line before the adjustment. The three teams were responsible for low-level solution Mono, medium-level solution Pilot and high-level solution SuperDrive.
Among them, the head of the high-level team, Su Qing (TapTechNews note pronunciation: jīng), was the former head of the intelligent driving product department of Huawei, and joined Horizon more than a year ago; the head of the low-level and medium-level teams is Yu Yinan, who is the vice president of Horizon and the president of the software platform product line. He used to be a scientist at Baidu Institute of Deep Learning and joined Horizon in 2015.
The original scale of the low-level solution team was more than 100 people, and after the adjustment, it will be merged with the hundreds of people-sized high-level solution team, which will be in charge of Su Qing. The original 200+ people in the medium-level solution team will mostly join the joint venture Continental Core Intelligent Driving established by Horizon and the automotive Tier1 Continental Group and the joint venture Core Journey between Horizon and the software company CARIAD under Volkswagen.
The main information of each scheme is as follows:
Low-level intelligent driving scheme: L2-level scheme based on front-view all-in-one machine, providing adaptive cruise, AEB (automatic emergency braking) and other functions, using the early product Journey 2 of Horizon.
Medium-level intelligent driving scheme: providing high-speed NOA pilot assisted driving, automatic parking and other L2+ level functions, mainly using Horizon's Journey 5.
High-level intelligent driving scheme: providing full-scenario intelligent driving scheme including urban NOA, mainly using Horizon's Journey 6 series released this year.
According to TapTechNews' previous report, Horizon's Journey 6 flagship version has a maximum computing power of up to 560 TOPS, which will realize the highly integrated four-in-one of CPU, BPU, GPU and MCU, and can be connected to up to 24 cameras, lidar and other types of sensors at most. This chip can also realize full-scenario NOA, which is claimed to be a vehicle-mounted computing solution specifically for the new generation of urban high-level intelligent driving. Its first batch of intended cooperative automakers for mass production includes BYD, GAC, BoschXC, Li Auto, and the software of Volkswagen's CARIAD.