Horizon Robotics' fourth appearance at CES, the second generation of automotive-grade AI chip Journey ignites multiple mass production collaborations

At the 2020 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, Horizon Robotics, the global leader in edge AI chips, exhibited China's first automotive-grade AI chip Journey-2, ADAS solutions, the new generation Matrix autonomous driving computing platform and a series of smart driving results, showing exhibitors a multi-level, multi-dimensional and multi-scenario smart driving "core" ecosystem.

In 2019, with the mass production of the second generation of the Journey and the successful batch deployment of pre-installed fixed points, Horizon Robotics' domestic and overseas business growth ushered in a new turning point. As a key year for commercialization, Horizon Robotics has carried out multi-dimensional cooperation with many top Tier1s in the world in the fields of ADAS, autonomous driving, multi-mode interaction, etc., and the orders for intelligent driving business have reached hundreds of millions of yuan this year. Participating in CES for the fourth time, from zero to one, Horizon Robotics has used its own way to pave a solid commercial path for the popularization of artificial intelligence for the general public.

Horizon's booth at booth 26026 in South Hall 2

ADAS solutions powered by automotive-grade AI chips and efficient algorithms

Based on China's first automotive-grade AI chip, the Journey II, Horizon Robotics has launched a single-sided forward-looking ADAS solution for the global market. The solution can effectively detect and identify nearly 100 types of targets in six categories, including vehicles, pedestrians, road lines, traffic signs, license plates, and traffic lights, within a 100-millisecond delay. In addition, Horizon Robotics' single-sided forward-looking ADAS solution is also optimized specifically for Chinese roads and scenarios, safeguarding the development of partners in the world's largest automotive market.

In the center of the booth, Horizon Robotics focused on displaying ADAS solutions based on the Journey 2 chip and a series of enabling results, including cooperation plans with many top Tier 1s and OEMs such as Continental, SK Telecom, Freetech, and Inbo Supercomputing, some of which are expected to achieve pre-installed mass production in 2020. From providing system reference solutions, to fully opening up perception results, to full-stack solutions for the tool chain, Horizon Robotics is providing different levels of product delivery and services based on the different needs of customers for the Journey 2 chip, fully empowering the intelligent upgrade of the automotive industry with in-depth, multi-dimensional and fully open services.

Horizon Robotics exhibited its assisted driving and autonomous driving products developed in cooperation with some international and domestic customers.

On the first day of CES, Horizon Robotics also announced a strategic partnership with Faurecia, a world-leading automotive parts technology company. The cooperation between the two parties covers multiple fields such as advanced driver assistance, autonomous driving and smart cockpit. By providing extremely efficient automotive-grade AI chips and open tool chain services, Horizon Robotics will enable Faurecia to create cost-effective intelligent driving products and solutions for mass production, accelerating Faurecia's strategic transformation in the era of intelligent automotive electronics.

Horizon Robotics and Faurecia have officially reached a strategic cooperation (from left to right: Zhang Yufeng, Vice President of Horizon Robotics and General Manager of Intelligent Driving Product Line, Huang Chang, Co-founder and Vice President of Technology of Horizon Robotics, Tang Defu, President of Faurecia China, and Benjamin, President of Faurecia Clarion Automotive Electronics Division China)

Matrix 2 autonomous driving computing platform makes its public debut

In the face of the increasingly accelerated trend of autonomous driving, Horizon Robotics is empowering customers by providing Matrix-based ready-to-use visual perception solutions and open chip tool chain services, allowing customers to focus on improving user experience differentiation and fleet-scale deployment operations, thereby gaining an advantage in the rapidly developing market. At this year's CES, Horizon Robotics' Matrix™️2 autonomous driving computing platform based on the second-generation Journey automotive-grade AI chip made its first public appearance. The iterative Matrix 2 has higher performance, lower power consumption and cost, and can meet the perception and computing needs of high-level autonomous driving fleets and unmanned low-speed vehicles in multiple countries and different scenarios.

Horizon’s Matrix™️2 autonomous driving computing platform made its public debut

Compared with the previous generation, Matrix 2 is equipped with 16TOPS of equivalent computing power, while its power consumption is only 2/3 of the original. In terms of perception, Matrix 2 can support multi-sensor perception and fusion including cameras, lidar, etc., and achieve up to 23 types of semantic segmentation and five types of target detection with low latency. It is worth mentioning that the perception algorithm implemented by Horizon on Matrix 2 can cope with complex environments and output stable perception results even in special scenarios or extreme weather conditions.

Currently, in the autonomous driving market, which is numbering in the hundreds, Horizon Robotics' Matrix-enabled autonomous driving vehicles have reached nearly 1,000. With the launch of Matrix 2, Horizon Robotics' scale and share in the autonomous driving market will further increase.

Technological first-mover advantage drives the commercialization of intelligent driving

With the mass production of China's first automotive-grade AI chip, Journey II, Horizon Robotics has made great strides in the commercialization of intelligent driving. At this CES, Horizon Robotics and its partners jointly demonstrated the edge AI "core" ecosystem, showing the audience a number of cooperative implementation solutions such as ADAS, autonomous driving, crowdsourced high-precision maps, and in-car multi-mode interaction enabled by Journey II.

Horizon Intelligent Driving "Core" Ecosystem

At present, Horizon Robotics' ADAS, autonomous driving and multi-mode interaction businesses are all in the leading echelon, and it is one of the few AI companies in China that has achieved large revenues. In 2019, a key year for commercialization, Horizon Robotics' intelligent driving business received orders of hundreds of millions of yuan. As more projects are gradually implemented, it is expected that the number of fixed-point projects will reach double digits by 2020, and the annual shipment volume of Journey series chips will reach one million in 2022.

The technological first-mover advantage promotes the commercialization process and provides a continuous source of momentum for Horizon to empower real-world scenarios. In the field of in-vehicle AI chips, which is recognized as a hard technology and a long-term innovation, Horizon will continue to innovate. It is expected that within this year, Horizon will successively launch a new generation of automotive-grade AI chips, injecting new potential energy into accelerating the implementation of autonomous driving.

Horizon Robotics Automotive-Grade AI Chip Journey Series Roadmap

Since its establishment, Horizon Robotics has participated in CES for four consecutive years, and its exhibits every year have brought new surprises to the industry. From edge computing prototypes, to the initial emergence of AI chips, to the implementation of full-scenario solutions, to multi-level ecosystem empowerment, Horizon Robotics is moving steadily towards its vision of becoming a global leader in edge AI chips.

Today, four years later, Horizon Robotics has achieved remarkable results in both product technology and business operations. Focusing on the "AI on Horizon, Journey Together" strategy, Horizon Robotics will continue to deepen its "algorithm + chip + tool chain" basic technology platform, adhere to the positioning of the underlying enabler, empower everything with artificial intelligence, and make everyone's life safer and better.