The chip, known as the Shenji NX9031, is constructed on a 5 nm course of and has over 50 billion transistors.
Nio (NYSE: NIO) unveiled its first in-house developed autonomous driving chip, which will likely be used within the ET9 government flagship sedan, at Nio Day 2023 on December 23.
The chip, known as the Shenji NX9031, is constructed on a 5 nm course of with over 50 billion transistors and helps 32-core CPUs.
Its computing energy is corresponding to 4 Nvidia Drive Orin X chips, in response to William Li, Nio’s founder, chairman, and CEO, with out mentioning particular numbers.
Nio’s present NT 2.0 platform-based fashions come commonplace with 4 Orin X chips, totaling 1,016 Tops of computing energy.
The Shenji chip will first be used within the ET9, which is already obtainable for pre-order, however deliveries will not start till the primary quarter of 2025.
Nio administration hinted earlier this week that the corporate would announce an in-house developed autonomous driving chip.
Nio’s present use of 4 Nvidia Drive Orin chips is enough for sensible driving algorithms, however the next-generation sensible driving chip ought to do higher, Bai Jian, the corporate’s vp in control of the {hardware} enterprise, stated on December 21 on Weibo.
A 12 months in the past, there have been media experiences that Nio was engaged on autonomous driving and LiDAR chips.
Nio’s chip crew was fashioned within the second half of 2020 as a part of Nio’s sensible driving {hardware} division, which is headed by Bai, who has served as normal supervisor of Xiaomi’s chip enterprise and as OPPO’s {hardware} director, in response to an October 2022 LatePost report.
Nio’s chip crew was engaged on two chips on the time, a high-level self-driving chip and a LiDAR chip, the report stated.
On the Nio IN 2023 Innovation Day occasion on September 21, Nio unveiled its first in-house chip, a LiDAR grasp chip.
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