Chapter 724 This Is a Shady Plot

"In the future, AI and unmanned driving will be the absolute trend. Unmanned driving under the Internet of Things and 5G technology will become the mainstream, greatly alleviating traffic congestion and reducing accidents."

In the National Convention Center, Chen Jun was talking at the press conference.

Obviously, this was a press conference held by Xin'an Automobile. All the top-ranked friendly companies were invited and were willing to come to support.

Because the content of this press conference is not new products, not new cars of the next generation, but the theme is chips.

Car manufacturers release chips?

"Meet X32025, meet the future!"

Chen Jun read out the slogan of this press conference again, and then took out a square chip slightly smaller than the palm from his chest.

Lin Ju was determined to promote AI and unmanned driving, so he directly based on the strongest chip X32035 given by the system at the beginning, only castrated some functions and came up with the main chip X32025 for unmanned driving.

The X32025 chip still uses the 14nm silicon carbide wafer process, castrating the multi-processor parallel computing function and some floating-point computing accuracy, but overall it is still the strongest AI chip second only to the X32035, and natively supports strong AI computing.

The chip held high by Chen Jun immediately attracted the attention of the people below, but in fact, the chip in his hand was the X32035, and the base engineers shielded some modules for demonstration.

The real native X32025 was handed over to Huaxin International, and the first batch of finished products will be available at least three or four months later.

"The X32025 will use a brand-new silicon carbide wafer and a brand-new 14nm energy-saving process. If converted to the traditional vehicle-mounted chip computing power, it will have a computing power of up to 5600TOPS!"

As soon as the voice fell, there was a constant coughing sound from the front row.

The participants from several new power manufacturers showed unbelievable eyes in unison, and almost fainted.

At present, new forces and intelligent driving are still in the development stage. There are not many dedicated in-vehicle intelligent chips, and the concept of computing power has only been popular for a short time.

The commonly used unit is TOPS. 1TOPS means that the processor can perform one trillion (10^12) operations per second. The computing power specified for L2 level assisted driving is less than 60TOPS, and L3 unmanned driving is only 100TOPS.

Of course, this is still the division system of traditional binary chips. Ternary chips are quite buggy in AI calculations, and the computing power cannot fully reflect the level of intelligence, but the converted 5600TOPS computing power is still too exaggerated.

In other words, it is hundreds of times the current mainstream level?

The reaction of traditional car companies is not so strong, but it also feels like they have heard something extraordinary.

After Chen Jun finished speaking, he deliberately observed the reactions of friendly companies below, and felt that it did not meet his expectations.

Lin Ju's technical requirements for rolling out unmanned driving are to be equivalent to the effect of native X32035 and SC09. The latter two are too wasteful for unmanned driving alone. Now Xinyuan's engineers are frantically deleting unnecessary architectures.

The level of autonomous driving at this level has surpassed that of humans. The week before, they transplanted X32035 and SC09 to a pure electric coupe tested in Xin'an and competed with several invited racers. In the end, X32035 won with a 12-4 advantage, squeezing out all the performance of the car body without any waste.

The performance of complex road conditions was also amazing. In the simulated traffic jam environment with extremely large traffic flow, the AI ​​that had not been completely deleted actually learned to actively squeeze in and drive on the line, and rushed out of the congestion area in the most flexible manner.

So he got Lin Ju's death order to start rolling out autonomous driving in 2019 and invest at least 100,000 autonomous online car-hailing vehicles by the end of 2020...

That's why the chip is released now to warm up for the autonomous online car-hailing project in a few months, and it is also a momentum.

After introducing X32025, it was time for questions and answers.

The vice president of a new power manufacturer stood up after receiving the microphone:

"Mr. Chen, X32025 uses 14nm process. As far as I know, there is no mature process below 28nm for silicon carbide chips in China."

"Your information is out of date. Huanghe Semiconductor is developing a new generation of EUV lithography machines. The 14nm silicon carbide production line will be put into production at the end of this year. As far as I know, domestic chips are experiencing rapid progress."

When Chen Jun answered, he remembered the scene he saw when he went to the base a few days ago. After the base bought the 193nm light source DUV lithography machine and other supporting machine patents from Modu Microelectronics, it directly burned 20 billion to get the EUV lithography machine that supports up to 10nm process, and has entered the trial production stage of parts.

In the past, the base still needed to purchase optical components from other manufacturers, but after launching the laser project, it also established a small and sophisticated optical production line, which is also the most advanced in China and can provide the required high-precision parts.

Huanghe Semiconductor is negotiating a merger with a small chip foundry and plans to place the future 14nm silicon carbide production line there.

The only difficulty we are facing now is the wafer problem. The domestic production capacity of large-sized silicon carbide wafers has not yet been increased, which will lead to high costs, but that's all.

Chen Jun's words made it impossible for others to refute. In my impression, Huanghe Semiconductor has always played cards unconventionally, so it's really hard to say.

"Next."

This time, the participant who stood up was Honmeng Zhixing. Huawei in this world line is also divided into several factions in car manufacturing.

Looking like a middle-aged engineer, he accurately grasped the sensitive point:

"Mr. Chen, our country seems to have not yet issued perfect regulations for fully automatic driving. Will there be legal and ethical problems in promoting unmanned driving now?"

Chen Jun: "AI is the future development direction. It is already an industry consensus. We cannot stop because the supporting facilities are not perfect. The perfect regulations you mentioned also need to be filled by continuous trial and error. In addition, I think this friendly business is not sensitive enough and overlooked some things.

Just before the press conference, the country has issued a pilot promotion method for fully automatic driving. We are a pilot enterprise that meets the requirements and there are no so-called loopholes or problems."

The last sentence made everyone below confused. They have always been well-informed. It is impossible that there is no wind before the announcement of any important regulations.

It was not until someone opened the phone and saw the news promotion and clicked in that they found out that it was true. The title was almost the same as what Chen Jun said.

But after seeing the time, the person almost popped his eyes out.

The "Full Automatic Driving Pilot Promotion Method" was just passed at 9 am this morning, and the press conference started at 9:10. After entering the press conference, everyone did not pay attention to the outside news, so they didn't know anything.

However, the Measures were passed 10 minutes before the press conference, and even the media had no time to report on this regulation that was suddenly passed without a beginning or an end!

And from the concise content released by the media, the enterprises that meet the pilot requirements in the Measures must obtain L3 assisted driving level certification, and as the only company in China with this qualification, Xinan even has the power to cooperate in the review of other later car companies!

The engineer of Hongmeng Zhixing only discovered it after being reminded by others, and immediately had the urge to throw away the microphone and curse.

The shady, naked shady!

From his point of view, this regulation was almost passed for Xinan, and it was biased to the extreme. Moreover, it was called a pilot, but the scope of the pilot almost covered all major cities in all regions of the country. Is this called a pilot? !