In August, the assembly volume of cockpit domain control increased by 119% year-on-year. BlackBerry provides basic software support for the integration of cockpit and driving.

Zuosi Auto Research's "Automotive Cockpit Electronics Monthly Monitoring and Analysis Report (2023 Issue 9)" is released monthly, closely tracking the latest market data in the field of smart cockpits, analyzing and grasping the development of related industries, companies, products, and technologies Movements and trends.

From January to August 2023, in China's new passenger car market, the assembly volume of LCD instruments was 10.390 million units, a year-on-year increase of 16.1%; the assembly volume of central control screens was 11.854 million units, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. In August 2023, the cockpit domain control assembly volume of China's passenger car L1 and above cockpit-level models (referring to models that can be connected to the Internet and the central control screen size is greater than or equal to 10 inches) was 527,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 119.1%, and the penetration rate reached 28.2 %; the cockpit SoC chip market is basically monopolized by major international chip manufacturers such as Qualcomm, AMD, Intel, and Samsung. Among them, Qualcomm occupies an absolute dominant position, with a market share of 60.3%, an increase of 7.4 percentage points from the same period last year.

Huayang universal cockpit domain control solution: covering the three major chip platforms of Qualcomm, Xinchi and Renesas

Huayang GM has laid out its layout in the cockpit domain and driving domain around " intelligence ". In terms of the cockpit domain, Huayang's cockpit domain controller can realize functions such as one-core multi-screen, multi-screen interconnection, multi-mode interaction, integrated cabin and parking, and in-car sensing, integrating functions of multiple different operating systems and security levels into one On the platform, resources are fully utilized through virtualization isolation and chip computing power sharing.

At the 2023 Shanghai Auto Show, Huayang General Motors launched a cabin-parking integrated domain control solution based on Qualcomm 8155, equipped with QNX 7.0 and Android R, and adopted the QNX  Hypervisor solution. In the future, it plans to follow up on Qualcomm SA8255 and SA8775 to further achieve cross-domain integration. Currently, Huayang Universal Cockpit Domain Control Solution covers the three major chip platforms of Qualcomm, Renesas, and Xinchi, and all three solutions have achieved mass production, which can meet the customized needs of different models of OEMs.

Huayang Universal Intelligent Cockpit Domain Controller Three Major Technical Solutions

Source: Zuosi Auto Research's "Car Cockpit Electronics Monthly Monitoring and Analysis Report (September 2023 Edition)"

Focusing on the development trend of cross-domain integration and central integration of automobiles, Huayang Group will release Huayang Cockpit 3.0 in 2023 and plans to release Huayang Cockpit 4.0 in 2024. Among them, 3.0 is a next-generation high-performance and cost-effective cockpit solution focusing on cross-domain integration, integrated cabin and berthing and other scenario planning; 4.0 is a central computing unit based on next-generation EEA planning, focusing on multi-domain integration, cabin-drive integration, Scenarios such as integrated cabin, boat and berth.

In order to cope with the more intense price war that will be faced next, Huayang announced the "Light Domain Control AVN+" product in early 2023. This product is a product that addresses the cost requirements of the OEM while taking into account some of the performance requirements. It is suitable for Lower-priced models, with models priced as low as 50,000 yuan, greatly reduce the purchasing costs of car companies. At present, Light Domain Control AVN+ has received multiple project appointments, and there will be mass production of projects in the second half of 2023.

BlackBerry QNX provides basic software support for cabin-driving integration

For the typical three-domain controller architecture in current automotive electronics , BlackBerry QNX can provide basic software with the OS operating system as the core and functional safety certification, including QNX OS operating system, QNX Hypervisor, QNX Black Channel and QNX Graphic Monitor. QNX products are widely used in automotive electronics fields that require functional safety and network information security, such as smart cockpits, automatic assisted driving, and high-performance computing platforms.

In 2014, BlackBerry QNX began to develop domain controller integration for smart cockpits and proposed a "one core, multiple screens" solution. Currently, there are more than 70 domestic platforms for smart digital cockpit domain controllers based on BlackBerry QNX virtualization. Projects include the domestic launch project of Jiyue 01 based on Qualcomm 8295, and the global launch project of the Mercedes-Benz E-class based on Qualcomm 8295. The subsequent mass production of cockpit domain control based on Qualcomm 8295 also includes new brands such as Jikrypton, Leapmoon, Ideal, and Xpeng. car model.

The most commendable thing about BlackBerry's QNX OS is its security, which is the biggest advantage of the QNX operating system. It is precisely because of the characteristics of functional safety and network security that BlackBerry QNX is mostly used in the safe use of automotive electronic functions. BlackBerry QNX follows the four major design concepts of spatial isolation, time domain isolation, message isolation, and communication isolation when developing functional safety basic software.

In the next one or two years, "cabin-driving integration" will become the mainstream solution for automotive intelligence, and BlackBerry QNX will remain an important player in the underlying software. In the cabin-driving integrated architecture, the underlying chip is a cabin-driving integrated integrated chip. The hypervisor virtualization solution provided by BlackBerry QNX will run on the chip, allowing the chip to carry various domains. In response to the cost issues that OEMs and Tier1 are concerned about, BlackBerry QNX’s cost change path when developing a “one-core, multiple-screen” cockpit domain control integration solution is also applicable to the cabin-driving integrated solution by increasing the large-scale mass production of multiple platform models. To realize cost sharing, the trend of cost reduction is very obvious.

In September 2022, NVIDIA released the next-generation computing platform Drive Thor, with a computing power of up to 2000TOPS, which is 8 times that of the current Orin. Qualcomm also soon released an intelligent smart phone called "Integrated Automotive Supercomputing SoC" Automotive chip - Snapdragon Ride Flex, the comprehensive computing power can reach up to 2000TOPS. Behind the huge leap in computing power, the next-generation products of both parties aim to capture the two major scenarios of autonomous driving and smart cockpits at the same time.

As a traditional partner of NVIDIA and Qualcomm, BlackBerry QNX is working with major international manufacturers such as Qualcomm and NVIDIA as well as domestic cabin-driving integrated chip companies to develop an integrated cabin-driving platform. Currently, there are many designated projects in China, and many hosts The factory is also planning a platform project integrating cabin and driving.

In the latest cabin-driving integrated solution, BlackBerry QNX will continue to provide support from the perspective of basic software - the basic software in NVIDIA's Drive Thor platform is Drive OS, and what is inside Drive OS is BlackBerry QNX's ASIL D-level certified functional safety system. , the same is true for Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Flex.

Changan Qiyuan A07 takes the "Emotional Island Suspended Digital Cockpit Platform" as the main design line

On September 26, 2023, Changan Qiyuan A07 was officially launched. The new car is built on the Changan EPA1 platform. A total of 5 configurations are launched. The price range is 155,900-176,900 yuan. There are two versions of extended-range hybrid and pure electric versions available. choose.

The interior of Changan Qiyuan A07 takes the "Emotional Island Suspended Digital Cockpit Platform" as the main design line. It forms a wrap-around design from the center console, central armrest area, and then extends to the door armrest area. The door armrest also integrates a "dial button window control". The two personalized designs of "switch + electronically controlled inner door opening" make it more convenient for users in the car to open and close the doors and windows.

The Changan Qiyuan brand will launch a new product series of Changan Automobile - including the A series, Q series and the E0 series of digital new car products. Compared with Avita and Deep Blue, Changan Qiyuan was incubated within the Changan system. According to Changan Automobile's plan, Changan Qiyuan will successively release Changan Qiyuan A05, A06, A07, and Q05 products in 2023. Qiyuan will launch 10 new digital intelligent vehicles by 2025.

Avita is positioned as a high-end intelligent luxury route. Avita is "jointly defined and jointly developed" by Changan Automobile, CATL, and Huawei ;

Deep Blue is positioned on the hard-core technology route, focusing on personalized and younger groups, and is committed to creating technological attributes. It has developed independently in March 2023;

Changan Qiyuan is more mainstream and positioned in the B-class car market, focusing on family users.