Gaohe releases its self-developed high computing power smart cockpit platform, which will be tested internally by the end of this year and will be installed in batches next year

On September 19, the 2023 Gaohe Wings Day officially opened. With design innovation, engineering innovation and intelligent innovation as the core, Gaohe Automobile demonstrated the latest research and development results and cutting-edge technologies, and officially released its self-developed high computing power intelligent cockpit platform.

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The platform will be equipped with Qualcomm QCS8550 chip for the first time. It is based on aviation-grade/auto-grade dual-standard FPGA, automotive-grade MCU and automotive-grade gateway. Through chip parallel connection and automotive-grade large system development methods, it can achieve high reliability and Combined with high computing power, it brings users a convenient, smooth, freely expandable, and sustainable evolving smart cockpit experience.

Why develop a self-developed high computing power smart cockpit platform?

When talking about why it is necessary to develop its own high-computing smart cockpit platform, Ding Lei, founder, chairman and CEO of Gaohe Automobile, said: "Future industrial competition is actually a competition between software and chips."

He recalled that when he was working in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in 2011, he came into contact with many companies in the chip upstream and downstream industries. At that time, he learned for the first time that China spent more money importing chips than importing oil. From that time on, he wanted to Develop chips to catch up with the world. 

In addition, Ding Lei also pointed out that cars and machines have higher requirements for safety, so the development of car-grade SOCs lags behind the development of consumer product chips by two generations, at least 1-2 years. "No matter how fast you develop, there will always be a time lag before you leave your mobile phone."

Therefore, in response to the new pain points in the industry and the new needs of users, Gaohe Innovation launched a systematic solution - a self-developed high computing power intelligent cockpit platform.

According to reports, the platform is based on a building-block high-reliability and security architecture. Through the method of chip parallel connection and car-level large-scale system development, it can meet users' requirements for smart devices while ensuring car-level reliability, safety and stability. The cockpit requires large computing power, large ecology, and iterability.

"The high-standard full-process independent research and development system has built a solid foundation for technological innovation. Gaohe Automobile has insisted on independent innovation since its establishment, and has established a full-stack independent research and development system in design, vehicle engineering, powertrain and vehicle intelligence. Research capabilities." Dr. Zheng Wei, Vice President of Vehicle Engineering of Gaohe Automobile, said at the press conference.

First equipped with Qualcomm QCS8550 chip, bringing the flagship chip to the car machine

Based on the in-depth cooperative relationship between Gaohe Automobile and Qualcomm, and taking into account chip AI computing power, application ecology, etc., Gaohe’s self-developed high computing power smart cockpit platform is equipped with Qualcomm QCS8550 chip for the first time, creating a ceiling of smart cockpit computing power and truly making the performance comparable to that of cars and machines. Flagship phone.

According to reports, Qualcomm QCS8550 chip's AI computing power can reach up to 96TOPS, and for the first time it supports local running of Transformer large models on the car, combining AI experience, faster response and user privacy protection. At the same time, Qualcomm QCS8550, as the first mobile chip to support hardware ray tracing, can make the car-machine interface as real and smooth as the top game graphics.

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Ding Lei said: "Gaohe's self-developed high computing power smart cockpit platform allows the flagship computing power SoC to be launched on the car. This platform can also be connected to China's local high-end chips in the future. This platform system can allow Gaohe's products to connect to a more open ecosystem in the future." , has better compatibility, and can also achieve greater integration of cross-industry resources. The release of this platform is an important step for Gaohe to achieve cross-border innovation in intelligence and achieve overtaking in corners. I believe it will also be achieved. It will provide some inspiration and new solutions to the entire automotive industry.”

It is worth mentioning that at the press conference, based on its self-developed high-computing smart cockpit platform, Gaohe Automobile also jointly released a large local speech model based on GPT with Microsoft, combined with the latest chip acceleration technology, to synthesize cloud recognition The ability is deployed to the end side, using multi-language support and massive data to break dialect barriers and achieve multi-language mixed recognition. At the same time, the latest large model technology is used to build multi-scenario and multi-modal semantic understanding and dialogue generation, making voice assistant dialogue more natural and intelligent.

It is understood that in June 2023, Gaohe’s first engineering prototype equipped with a self-developed high-computing power smart cockpit platform has been lit up and middleware debugging has been started. It is planned to conduct small batch internal testing on Gaohe’s current HiPhi X by the end of this year. Mass production will be achieved in the first quarter of 2024.