Smart cockpit SOC competition upgraded, and domestic 7Nm chips ushered in an important breakthrough

Get into 2022 year , Smart cockpit SoC Of “ Escalation war ” It's getting worse , The traditional cockpit market chip pattern is about to be broken .

The monitoring data of Intelligent Automobile Research Institute of Gaogong shows that ,2022 year 1-4 The Chinese market （ Excluding import and export ） The insurance coverage of the new car equipped with a digital networking cockpit in the front of the passenger car is 244.06 Thousands of cars , Year-on-year growth 28.36%, The carrying rate of front loading has increased by nearly 15 Percentage points to 42.57%.

With the rapid increase of the carrying rate of new cars in the digital networking cockpit , Traditional low computing power chips are being gradually replaced , At the same time, China's high-performance intelligent cockpit SoC It is accelerating to meet the mass production period .

In recent days, , The relevant person in charge of Xinqing technology disclosed , Its first 7nm Intelligent cockpit chip ——“ Dragon Eagle One ” The testing and verification of mass-produced vehicle models have been completed in succession , It is very outstanding in the specific application of intelligent vehicles , For example, the smoothness of vehicle operation and operation experience 、 Real time data exchange speed between multiple screens, etc .

“ Dragon Eagle One ” Showroom car

according to the understanding of , “ Dragon Eagle One ” Mass production will be realized in the fourth quarter of this year . Besides ,“ Dragon Eagle One ” Has won a number of fixed-point models .

The smart cockpit chip market is about to change

At present , The smart cockpit is accelerating the upgrade from a single function , Gradually control to the large computing power domain 、 More human-computer interaction functions and in-depth integration for evolution . In the process , The function chip of traditional automobile has been unable to meet the demand , Big computing power intelligent cockpit SoC The demand for chips is soaring .

before , Most of the cockpit chips sold in the market are mainly made of NXP、TI、 Reza 、 Supplied by MediaTek and other manufacturers , But in the last two years , Including GAC 、 geely 、 The Great Wall 、 Wei to 、 Xiaopeng and other new and old car companies are carrying Qualcomm 8155 chip . The core reason behind this is ,“ Software defines the car ” Advanced automotive hardware architecture and strong computing support are required , The more intelligent , The cockpit has higher requirements for the computing power of the main control chip .

Director and director of Xinqing technology CEO Dr. Wang Kai once said , To create an intelligent cockpit system with better user experience , The first condition is that the computing power of the smart cockpit chip should be in line with that of the mobile phone . But it is very natural to realize 、 Smooth interaction experience , You need enough AI Calculation force and corresponding AI Algorithm as a support , The traditional in car entertainment chips can no longer meet the computing power needs of the intelligent cockpit .

therefore , With the acceleration of the evolution of the vehicle electronic and electrical architecture from distributed to centralized , For the next period of time , Traditional low computing power chips will be accelerated by high-performance cockpit SoC replace .

The monitoring data of Intelligent Automobile Research Institute of Gaogong shows that ,2021 In the year, the proportion of passenger cars delivered with information and entertainment in the Chinese market has exceeded 80%, among ,NXP、TI、 Full ambition 、 Jiefa and other traditional low computing power chips account for more than 50%. It means , High performance cockpit SoC The alternative market is huge .

“ Dragon Eagle One ” It is the first product launched by core engine technology in China 7nm The high-end processor of the vehicle specification level high computing power multi-core heterogeneous intelligent cockpit , built-in 8 Core CPU、14 The core GPU as well as 8 TOPS AI Calculating NPU, Can achieve 90K DMIPS Of CPU Calculative sum 900GFLOPS Of GPU Calculate the force , The performance index can be compared with the most advanced products in the international market .

meanwhile ,“ Dragon Eagle One ” The smart cockpit chip integrates “ One core multi screen system ”, At the same time, it integrates speech recognition 、 Gesture control 、 The liquid crystal instrument 、HUD、DMS as well as ADAS Integration and other functions , Let the driver enjoy more intuitive 、 More personalized interactive experience .

Insiders believe that , Independent brand car enterprises have gradually begun to accept domestic chips , In the next few years , A group of manufacturers who have laid out centralized electronic and electrical architecture master chips in advance will begin to enjoy dividends .

domestic 7nm The smart cockpit chip ushered in an important breakthrough

Whether the car experience is smooth 、 Whether the machine starts up quickly 、 How fast is the connection , It has become the most direct feedback for end users to judge the intellectualization of vehicles .

recently , The core engine team carries “ Dragon Eagle One ” In Wuhan, the exhibition car of . carrying “ Dragon Eagle One ” Test vehicle , Whether it's map navigation 、 Car networking 、 Car engine APP、 Video playback 、 Voice interaction 、 Car games and advanced assisted driving , Can achieve instant response 、 Smooth operation ……

1、 The system starts instantly , Run at full speed . The computing power of intelligent cockpit chips determines the number of screens in the cockpit 、 Running smoothness and picture richness ,“ Dragon Eagle One ” High performance heterogeneous computing engines provide powerful computing power , The processor cluster with high energy efficiency is combined with unique functional security and information security hardware products , Quickly build an on-board intelligent ecosystem .

“ The number of screens is increasing 、 Resolution is getting higher and higher , To ensure that every screen can run smoothly without jamming , It has very high requirements for chip performance .” Dr. Wang Kai said ,“ Dragon Eagle One ” It has outstanding computing ability and collaborative matching ability , It can enhance the stability and handling of the vehicle , Improve response time , It also supports one machine, multiple screens and multiple systems .

according to the understanding of ,“ Dragon Eagle One ” The demonstration car carries a piece of 12.3 Inch full LCD dashboard and two pieces 12.3 Inch touch LCD screen , rely on “ Dragon Eagle One ” Excellent computing power , The cabin system of the demonstration car can be started instantly 、 Run at full speed .

2、 Intelligent navigation function . according to the understanding of , An easy-to-use navigation function , Not only does it need an efficient and easy-to-use AI engine , It also needs a powerful perception system and a wealth of visual algorithm support . The display car supports two finger sliding and scaling 、 Multi screen touch control and three finger multi screen switching .

3、 Video playback . rely on “ Dragon Eagle One ” Powerful video codec capability and high bandwidth display channel , The display car supports multimedia applications with multiple full HD screens , Realize free interaction between multi touch screens , Two finger sliding zoom and three finger multi screen arbitrary switching .

4、 Intelligent voice call . High performance audio signal processing unit and rich audio interfaces , Matching voice AI To accelerate the engine , Support rich intelligent voice applications .

5、 Game features . Powerful GPU Rendering power and various graphics hardware acceleration units , While playing HD video smoothly , Support 3D The game is fast and smooth , High bandwidth and low latency LPDDR5 Memory bandwidth , Ensure real-time data exchange between multiple screens .

The above demonstration , It's just “ Dragon Eagle One ” Performance in some functions , More shows coming soon ……

disclaimer ： The test picture of the locomotive in the text , It is only used to show the development effect , The functions of mass production models shall be subject to the actual carrying .