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"Let's report from the most basic core computing power..."

The technical director of the project immediately took out a piece of motherboard hardware and showed it to the two leaders, Luo Sheng and Ding Ping, and said, "This is our finalized chip, code-named 'Shining', which is optimized and designed by our project team for AI scenarios. The system-on-chip, which is a development board based on this chip design.”

Luo Sheng asked succinctly, "What is the computing performance?"

The technical director immediately replied: "The motherboard is equipped with two 'Shining' chips and two independent GPUs, which can provide up to 450 teraflops of floating-point computing performance. It can be said that even the support of L4 and L5 fully automated driving technology There is no pressure.”

For comparison, the floating-point operation performance that NVIDIA's development board can provide is only 3 trillion operations per second, while the former automotive chip overlord, Mobileye, which specializes in computer vision chips, was acquired by Intel for more than 15 billion US dollars. Their EyeQ5 chip can only provide 40 trillion floating-point operations per second.

Compared with the "Shining" of the Côte d'Azur laboratory, it is not at the same level at all. No wonder the technical director of this project said that it has an absolute technological lead.

After all, I have been studying for 12 years.

Luo Sheng: "Where's the test car?"

Technical Director: "In the test shop."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng got up and said, "Let's go and have a look."

The technical director put aside the motherboard chip in his hand, and immediately led Luo Sheng and Ding Ping to the testing workshop.

Luo Sheng explained as he walked: "In terms of fully autonomous driving, whether it can provide sufficient computing power for artificial intelligence perception and decision-making is very important. As the most popular AI application scenario at present, the field of autonomous driving is welcoming. There is an unprecedented technological dividend period, we have to be prepared, and the wind will take off at any time."

The accompanying technical director nodded: "Understood."

In a few minutes, Luo Sheng and others came to the test workshop. There are twenty engineers and employees working here. The space is very large, and it is relatively chaotic. All kinds of tools are scattered around.

There are also some quilts and pillows on the floor, some empty bottles of happy water, and some lunch boxes are still on the side.

Luo Sheng said in a daze: "What kind of plane are you doing? You are eating, drinking, drinking, sleeping, and sleeping in this workshop? People who don't know think that I am a black-hearted boss who squeezes employees, so I won't be hafnium."

Seeing a young engineer looking over with a tool,

There was a painted face on his face, and Luo Sheng shook his head in disbelief when he saw it.

"Don't worry, boss, this is all of our own volition. We are all technical nerds, singles, and have no other hobbies other than fiddling with technology... It's just a little messy, hehe~~"

Luo Sheng said solemnly: "Stop doing this, I won't give you a salary increase, you will be sent to your door and be prostituted for nothing."

"There's no need to increase the salary, it's just... boss, I have a proposal."

"What proposal?"

"Can you arrange for us a big white robot to come over to clean up or something..."

"...Okay, it's arranged."

This is just a small episode. The developers like the free atmosphere of the Côte d'Azur Lab very much. There are not so many boxes. Under the condition of ensuring the principle, as much as possible to give employees the freedom to choose their preferred way of working.

The technical director of the project department found an employee and gave a few words. After a while, a prototype car automatically drove to Luo Sheng and others.

"Mr. Luo, that's it. A customizable multi-seat multi-function fully autonomous unmanned tram, which has a multi-purpose combination of hotels, dining cars, logistics and mobile hospitals."

"Its functional design is combined with our autonomous driving platform, and it can be operated through the smartphone APP. Of course, it can also be authorized to Dabai, just instruct Dabai, but the team is still developing internally, and currently does not support Dabai hosting ."

At this moment, Luo Sheng and others are looking at the prototype car parked in front of them. From the appearance, it adopts a very sci-fi design style. The white car shell is matched with a large area of ​​glass. Like a piece of white bread.

A little cute van, but the design is very futuristic, and there is no front and rear to speak of, because it is fully electric and driverless.

Luo Sheng entered the car and took a look. Ding Ping, who followed up, looked at it and nodded and said, "Whether it's the color matching, or the floor, interior decoration, seats, etc., it's quite humane."

The accompanying technical director smiled and said: "This concept car should be called a 'multifunctional electric chassis with fully autonomous driving capability', because the main function of our design of this car is to replace the cabin connected to the chassis, Therefore, it was designed as a van-type car structure, in order to be able to exchange cars with different functions to achieve functional changes.”

Luo Sheng said, "For example?"

He didn't understand, because he did not participate in the design and development of this driverless car, but the key technology is inseparable from Luo Sheng, that is, the application of the most core artificial intelligence technology.

The technical director introduced one by one:

"For example, if you install a shelf compartment on it, it will be a mobile unmanned vending machine; if you install it in business class, it will be a mobile office space; if you install an empty compartment, it will be an unmanned cargo machine. Small trucks that can act as mobile food trucks, hurry up delivery trucks, etc..."

"The length of the body can be adjusted from 5 meters to 8 meters, and the tires can also be arranged from 4 or 8 according to the actual situation."

At this moment, Luo Sheng's car is a special car for travel, with 7 seats. If you add the space for standing, you can take more than 20 people.

Luo Sheng sits in the side seat, next to a console panel, which can be manually planned, or input by voice, or through the mobile APP.

"Um……"

Luo Sheng nodded with satisfaction: "Very good design, for most people, their lives are connected by different 'scenarios', such as their own apartment, company office, restaurant or convenience store downstairs of the company , small parks or gyms near home, restaurants or shopping malls for weekend parties, and nearby movie theaters or bars, etc..."

"And connecting these 'scenarios' is often a car, but it is not so much a car as a mobile platform. In the future, in addition to 'transporting people' and 'transporting things', it may also be able to 'transport scenes' Right. Not bad, this self-driving car and Dabai have this huge linkage effect.”

Luck scene?

What the big boss said is compelling. He deserves to be a tech giant. Obviously, that's what happened. If you change a term, the grade will go up inexplicably.

Luo Sheng nodded again and again: "Well...standardized, customizable, personalized, and multi-functional. Bringing clean, interconnected, safe and energy-saving mobility to consumers and enterprises, it can meet various travel and transportation needs. Yes, very good, remember to reduce the cost of the cabin as much as possible, so that customers can customize more styles of personalized cabins, which fully reflects its competitive advantage.”

“Imagine, when you get in the car, it asks what kind of ride and driving style do you like? What kind of sound effects do you need to match? Maybe everyone is buying the same car, but can customize a completely different service to make a difference The application scene can be changed at any time.”

"Some are racing cars, some are comfortable in a presidential car, some can be your own shopping basket, some can be your own private kitchen, etc., but all of these are based on accurate grasp and application of customer data. Star Technology has data and can provide support, and the future of automobiles may be based on this model to rebuild a new ecosystem and a new way of life."

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