Domestic car-grade chips open up a new independent and controllable track

The National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center, Beijing Open Source Chip Research Institute, and Zhongke Haixin recently established a RISC-V automotive-grade chip technology joint laboratory in Beijing to improve the research and development efficiency of domestic automotive-grade chips based on the chip needs of domestic car companies. The ability to "get on the car" presses the "accelerator button" to increase the self-sufficiency rate of domestic automotive chips.

my country is a major automobile manufacturing country, with automobile production ranking first in the world. There is a strong demand for automobile chips, and domestically produced new energy vehicles are especially "big players" in chips. Different from consumer-grade chips, automotive-grade chips have higher requirements for reliability, consistency, and stability, and need to face more harsh environments. If you need to adapt to extreme temperatures from -40°C to -150°C, withstand high vibration, dust, electromagnetic interference, adapt to the humidity range of 0%-100%, etc., the design life should generally be 15 years or more than 200,000 kilometers, which is very important for Chip quality puts forward higher requirements.

Bao Yungang, chief scientist of the Beijing Open Source Chip Research Institute, told reporters, "ARM architecture has long dominated the global chip field. In the field of automotive-grade chips, there is still a big gap between my country and foreign countries. At present, the CPU core of most domestically produced cars We still need to rely on foreign authorization and face supply chain risks. The development, production, verification and onboarding of independent and controllable domestic automotive-grade chips urgently need to be accelerated.”

"The RISC-V architecture, as a stepping stone for China's independent and controllable chips, is expected to provide more possibilities for improving the self-sufficiency rate of domestic automotive chips." Yuan Chengyin, director of the National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center, said that in this context, The joint laboratory came into being.

According to the plan, the RISC-V automotive-grade chip technology joint laboratory will give full play to its platform and resource advantages. The Beijing Open Source Chip Research Institute will provide competitive, high-reliability, independent and controllable domestic automotive-grade IP cores, which will be provided by China Science and Technology Corporation. HiChip is responsible for making it into a product, and the National Innovation Center promotes the standardized process and corresponding tools from chip design and development to product formation, verification, and vehicle launch, jointly improving the development efficiency of car-grade chips and realizing the realization of Chinese automobiles. The chip industry chain and supply chain are autonomous and controllable and continue to be explored.