The Race Among Automakers in Developing Intelligent Driving Chips

TapTechNews August 2nd news, blogger @ExperienceMore posted today that all three new forces in the auto industry are developing their own intelligent driving chips. Xiaopeng's intelligent driving chip has also been sent for tapeout, and the mobile phone manufacturers' self-developed mobile phone AP has also been tapeout back.

TapTechNews noticed that in the NIO Innovation Technology Day held last week, NIO announced that the world's first 5-nanometer automotive-grade high-performance intelligent driving chip Shenji NX9031 has been successfully taped out, indicating that NIO has achieved independent design of hardware chips and underlying software. If the revelations are true, car companies such as Xiaopeng and Li Auto are expected to adopt self-developed chips, and the specific specifications and actual performance are worth looking forward to.

Shenji NX9031 chip has more than 50 billion transistors, adopts a 32-core CPU architecture, has built-in LPDDR5x 8533 Mbps rate RAM, and can achieve high dynamic range high-performance ISP with a pixel processing ability of 6.5 GPixel/s, and the processing delay is less than 5 ms.

NIO also conducted an on-board real-shot ISP processing demonstration at the scene. With the AI noise reduction algorithm and 26-bit bit width, it is claimed to provide the highest dynamic range in the industry. It is claimed that when using the same specification 8MP on-board camera, the imaging effect is more clear compared to the same specification industry flagship chip.