I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

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

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

Obviously this is a press conference held by Xinan Automobile, and all the high-ranking friends and businessmen have been invited and are willing to come to support it.

Because the content of this conference is not a new product or a new car, the theme is chips.

Car manufacturers release chips?

"Meet X32025, meet the future!"

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

Lin Ju was determined to promote AI and unmanned driving, so he directly based on the most powerful chip X32035 provided by the system at the beginning, and only castrated some functions to create the main chip X32025 for unmanned driving.

The X32025 chip still uses a 14nm silicon carbide wafer process, which eliminates the multi-processor parallel computing function and some floating point calculation accuracy. However, overall it is still the strongest AI chip after the X32035 and natively supports strong AI calculations.

The chip Chen Jun held up high immediately attracted the attention of those below, but in fact the chip in his hand was X32035. The base engineer had shielded some modules with flying wires for demonstration purposes.

The truly native X32025 was handed over to Huaxin International, and it took at least three or four months to get the first batch of finished products.

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

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard constant coughing from the front row.

Participants from several major new power companies uniformly looked at each other in disbelief and almost lost their breath.

Nowadays, new forces and smart driving are still in the development stage. There are not many dedicated in-vehicle smart chips, and the concept of computing power has only just become popular.

The commonly used unit is TOPS. 1TOPS means that the processor can perform one trillion operations per second (10^12). The current computing power required for L2-level assisted driving is less than 60TOPS, and L3 driverless 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. However, the converted computing power of 5600TOPS is still too exaggerated.

In other words, is it several hundred times the current mainstream level?

The reaction from traditional car companies was not that strong, but they still felt like they heard something remarkable.

After Chen Jun finished speaking, he carefully observed the reactions of the businessmen below and felt that they did not meet his expectations.

Lin Ju's technical requirement for the rollout of autonomous driving is to have the same effect as the native X32035 paired with SC09. The latter two are too wasteful simply for autonomous driving. Now Xinyuan engineers are frantically deleting unnecessary architecture.

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

The performance on complex road conditions is also surprisingly good. In a simulated traffic jam environment with a large traffic volume, the AI ​​that has not yet been completely deleted actually learned to actively block traffic and drive on the line, and just rushed out of the congestion area with the most flexible attitude.

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

That’s why we are releasing the chip now to warm up the autonomous ride-hailing project in a few months, and to build momentum at the same time.

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

The deputy CEO of a new power manufacturer got the microphone and stood up suddenly:

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

"Your news is lagging behind. 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 what 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 spent 20 billion to get the highest price. EUV lithography machines that support the 10nm process have entered the component trial production stage.

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

Huanghe Semiconductor is in merger and acquisition negotiations with a small chip foundry and plans to place its future 14nm silicon carbide production line there.

The only difficulty encountered now is the wafer problem. The domestic production capacity of large-size silicon carbide wafers has not yet increased, which will lead to high costs, but that is all.

Chen Jun's words made it impossible for others to refute. In my impression, Huanghe Semiconductor always acted unconventionally. It's hard to say.

"Next person."

This time, the participants of Hongmeng Intelligent Technology stood up. This world-class Huawei is also divided into several factions in terms of car manufacturing.

He looked like a middle-aged engineer, and he accurately grasped the sensitive points:

"Mr. Chen, it seems that our country has not yet introduced perfect regulations for fully autonomous driving. Are there any legal and ethical problems with the implementation of autonomous driving now?"

Chen Jun: "It is an industry consensus that AI is the future development direction. We cannot stop because the supporting facilities are not perfect enough. The perfect regulations you mentioned also require continuous trial and error to fill in. In addition, I think this friendly businessman is not sensitive enough. Something was overlooked.

Just before the press conference, the country had issued measures to promote fully autonomous driving pilots. We are a pilot company that meets the requirements, and there are no so-called loopholes or problems. "

The last sentence made everyone below confused. They were always well-informed, and it was impossible for there to be no news about any important regulations before they were announced.

It wasn't until someone turned on their phone and saw the news promotion and clicked in that they discovered that this was really the case. The title was almost the same as what Chen Jun said.

But after seeing the time, the man almost stared out of his eyes.

The "Full Autonomous Driving Pilot Promotion Method" was just passed at 9 a.m. this morning, and the press conference started at 9:10. After entering the press conference, everyone did not pay attention to external 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 any beginning or end!

Moreover, judging from the streamlined content released by the media, companies that meet the pilot requirements in the "Measures" must obtain L3 assisted driving level certification. As the only domestic company with this qualification, Xinan even has the power to cooperate with the review of other subsequent car companies!

Hongmeng Zhixing's engineer also discovered it after being reminded by others, and immediately had the urge to throw away the microphone and curse.

Shady, naked shady!

From his point of view, this regulation was almost passed just for Xin'an. It was so biased that it could no longer be biased. It was said to be a pilot, but the scope of the pilot included almost all major cities in the country. Is this called a pilot? !