Heavy! BYD plans to develop its own self-driving chip.

According to informed sources, BYD will independently develop a special chip for intelligent driving. The project is led by BYD Semiconductor team, and the requirements have been sent to the design company. If the progress is fast, it is expected that the chip will be released by the end of the year.

In addition, BYD is recruiting BSP(board support package) technical team. The function of BSP is to provide a standard interface for the operating system running on the chip.

It is understood that in fact, BYD set up its own semiconductor team about 20 years ago, and successively launched IGBT chips, automotive MCU chips and analog IC chips. However, BYD has never set foot in autopilot chips and digital cockpit chips in the field of intelligence.

In recent years, intelligence has gradually become the core competition direction of car companies, and BYD has also begun to adjust its business focus. Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD, said, "New energy vehicles are electrified in the first half and intelligent in the second half. In the field of intelligence, BYD will open all core technologies as in the field of electrification and fully verify them. 」

After the global "chip shortage" began in 2020, in addition to many domestic chip companies welcoming more demand, car companies also began to try to attach importance to chip research and development. Since 20021,traditional car companies including Geely, Great Wall, SAIC and Dongfeng have increased their investment in the field of chips.

Similarly, car companies that recently announced their own research and development of autonomous driving chips include Ideality and Tucki. 202 1, Wu Xinzhou, vice president of automatic driving of Xpeng Motors, told foreign media that he was studying various technologies including automatic driving chips.

In addition, Li Xiang, the founder of Li, also announced this year that he would develop his own self-driving chip and set up Sichuan Ideality Zhidong Technology Co., Ltd., whose business scope includes chip design.

Geely Automobile, which is also a traditional car company, also introduced the 7nm cockpit chip-Longying No.1 at the end of 20021through the core engine technology of Geely Holding.

However, executives of several chip companies all said that it is extremely difficult to make chips that can support their own car production in a short time. At present, there are only a handful of car companies that have successfully developed autonomous driving chips and achieved large-scale front loading. Tesla is one of the precedents.

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