Geely's 7nm automotive-grade SOC chip is officially released and will be mass-produced in 2022

On October 31, at the "Smart Geely 2025" conference, Geely Auto announced that the SE1000 smart cockpit chip, which was independently developed by Geely Core Technology and uses an automotive-grade 7nm process, will be officially mass-produced next year after completing automotive-grade certification. This will become China's first 7nm automotive-grade SOC chip.

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Gan Jiayue, CEO of Geely Auto Group, said: "This chip is only 83 square millimeters, but it integrates 87 layers of circuits and 8.8 billion transistors, all lit up at once. To make an inappropriate analogy, it is equivalent to building 8.8 billion rooms on a space as big as a fingernail, and building 87 floors on top. This is China's first 7-nanometer automotive-grade SOC chip."

Jiang Hanping, general manager of the product planning department of CoreEngine Technology, pointed out in his speech that the 7nm automotive process is an inevitable trend for high-computing automotive chips. "The 7nm process is maturing at the fastest speed in history. The highlight of the technology lies in the control of yield. The 7nm process has been used in high-computing application fields. Compared with the 16nm node process, 7nm can provide 3.3 times the gate circuit density, 35-40% speed improvement or 65% power reduction at the same power consumption. The cost advantage is rapidly emerging with the improvement of production capacity and yield."

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It is also worth noting that according to the plan, after the 7nm SOC chip, Geely will also launch 5nm in-vehicle integrated supercomputing platform chips and high-computing autonomous driving chips from 2024 to 2025, with a computing power of 256TOPS to meet the needs of L3 intelligent driving. At the same time, through the combination of multiple cores, the computing power can be expanded to meet the computing power requirements of higher levels of autonomous driving.