According to people familiar with the matter, BYD will independently research and develop a special chip for intelligent driving, which is led by BYD's semiconductor team, and has already sent out the demand to the design company, and is expected to flow by the end of the year if the progress is fast.
In addition, BYD is recruiting a BSP (board support package) technology team, the role of the BSP is to provide a standard interface to 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 has launched IGBT chips, automotive-grade MCU chips, and analog IC chips and other products. However, for the intelligent field of automatic driving chip and digital cockpit chip, BYD has not been involved.
In recent years, intelligence has gradually become the core competitive direction of car companies, and BYD has begun to adjust its business focus. BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu said, "the first half of the new energy vehicle is electrification, the second half is intelligence, BYD in the field of intelligence, will be like in the field of electrification, all the core technology through, and fully verified."
After the start of the global "chip drought" in 2020, in addition to a number of domestic chip companies ushered in more demand, car companies have also begun to try to pay attention to chip research and development. Since 2021, traditional car companies, including Geely, Great Wall, SAIC and Dongfeng, have increased their investments in the chip sector.
Also in the recent announcement of self-developed self-driving chips in the car companies, there are ideal and peng. 2021, peng car's vice president of automatic driving, Wu Xinzhou, said to the foreign media, it is researching a variety of technologies, including self-driving chips.
In addition, Li Xiang, the founder of Ideal Automobile, also announced this year that he will develop his own self-driving chip, and set up Sichuan Ideal Intelligent Technology Co.
Geely, also a traditional car company, also launched a 7nm cockpit chip, Dragon Eagle One, at the end of 2021 through Geely Holdings' CorePower Technology.
However, there have been a number of chip company executives said, want to make in the short term to support the production of their own car chip is extremely difficult. Currently, there are only a handful of car companies that have successfully developed their own self-driving chips and realized a large-scale front-end installation, and Tesla is one of the precedents.
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