Weilai, an electric vehicle manufacturer in China, announced its self-developed intelligent driving chip "Shenji NX9031" in 2021. This chip is an important milestone of Weilai in the field of intelligent electric vehicles. Its launch means that Weilai's independent innovation ability in automatic driving technology has been significantly improved.
According to the official introduction of Weilai, Shenji NX9031 is a high-performance car chip that can provide powerful computing power to support complex automatic driving algorithms. The chip adopts advanced process technology and has multiple high-performance processor cores, including CPU, GPU, NPU (neural network processing unit), which can realize high-speed parallel processing and deep learning operations.
This chip has significant technical advantages in the industry. It is the first intelligent driving chip manufactured by 5nm vehicle gauge technology, with more than 50 billion transistors integrated inside. This means that Shenji NX9031 can process massive data and provide powerful computing support for the intelligent driving system of Weilai Automobile.
Weilai claims that the performance of Shenji NX9031 can match that of four automatic driving chips under Nvidia, which is a very bold statement. As a world-famous GPU and AI processor manufacturer, Nvidia's autopilot chips have been widely used in the market, and have always been in the leading position in the industry in terms of performance. Weilai can develop a competitive EP1C3T144C7 The chip undoubtedly shows its technical strength and ambition for the future smart car market.
Another highlight of Shenji NX9031 is its self-developed reasoning acceleration unit NPU. This unit has powerful computing power and can efficiently run various AI algorithms while ensuring that the total power performance is less than 4800. This enables the automatic driving system of Weilai Automobile to make decisions more quickly and accurately, thus improving the safety and comfort of driving.
Shenji NX9031 also has the ability to dynamically wake up each subsystem in microseconds. This means that when needed, the chip can quickly activate relevant systems to provide timely and accurate feedback for drivers. With the strongest safety redundancy capability of Weilai Automobile, Shenji NX9031 can bring an extremely reassuring driving experience, allowing drivers to enjoy the convenience of intelligent driving while feeling the ultimate pursuit of safety performance of Weilai Automobile.
It is worth noting that chip comparison in the automotive industry is not only a comparison of performance, but also includes consideration of safety, reliability, power consumption and other dimensions. Therefore, although the computing power may be equivalent, whether the Sungrow NX9031 can reach or exceed the industry leading level in all these aspects is still a question to be verified.
In addition, the strength of the autopilot chip also needs to rely on mature software algorithms and sensor systems to play. The R&D and application of Weilai in these fields will also directly affect the final performance of Shenji NX9031 chip.
On the whole, the Shenji NX9031 chip developed by Weilaiyan is a symbol of China's automobile industry moving towards high-end intelligence. Its debut shows that Chinese automobile enterprises have not only made progress in the design and manufacturing of electric vehicles, but also made key steps in important core technologies of intelligent driving. With the continuous efforts and investment of Weilai and other car enterprises, we are expected to see more intelligent driving technologies and products with independent intellectual property rights and international competitiveness in the future.
