Behind the ideal delivery of 500 thousand units： horizon efficient computing helps lead the high-end smart driving market

　　On September 27th, the cumulative delivery volume of LI officially exceeded 500,000 units, becoming the first new force automobile enterprise in China to achieve this achievement. After 46 months, the process was not advancing at a constant speed, but accompanied by more and more turbulent acceleration: it took only 100 days for LI to get off the assembly line from the 400,000 th production car to the 500,000 th production car; The next 500,000 units, the ideal announcement will be achieved within one year. This can’t be separated from LI’s hand in hand with its supplier partners.

　　Industry-leading provider of high-performance intelligent driving computing solutions — — Horizon is a typical representative of supplier partners who walk hand in hand with LI.

　　Horizon Journey 3, Journey 5, two generations of chips are carried in LI for the first mass production. LI L-series Pro and Air models are both equipped with the AD Pro intelligent driving system based on Horizon Journey 5, which continues to lead the experience evolution and standard popularization of high-speed NOA. According to the data of the Institute of Intelligent Automobile of Gaogong (hereinafter referred to as Gaogong), NOA delivered 263,200 new cars as standard from January to July this year, of which the contribution of ideal single brand accounted for more than 50%.

　　While supporting LI to win the sales champion of more than 300,000 SUVs for five consecutive months, the shipment volume of Horizon Journey 5 has also increased rapidly. According to the data released by Horizon in early September, the shipment of Journey 5 has exceeded 200,000 pieces, with an average monthly shipment of more than 20,000 pieces. Horizon has thus further consolidated its position as a head player of high-level intelligent driving. According to senior engineer data, in the NOA computing solution market in the first half of this year, Horizon and NVIDIA jointly occupied more than 80% of the market share, and the head effect and trend were prominent.

　　It is worth noting that Horizon has not only become the top two players in market share, but also ranks first in the industry in the number of NOA models. This means that the efficient and open collaboration paradigm created by Horizon and LI has already extended its influence radius to the further areas of the smart car industry.

　　It is understood that Horizon Journey 5 has accumulated more than 20 models of mass production from more than 9 car companies: in addition to the ideal L-series Pro and Air models, it also includes models from BYD, Weilai Automobile, SAIC Motor, Changan Automobile, Ai ‘an, Hongqi, Nezha Automobile and Chery Automobile, as well as the cooperation of several foreign-funded and joint venture car companies that have not been officially announced. It can be considered that Horizon Journey 5 has become the unanimous choice for mainstream car companies to lay out high-level intelligent driving.

　　Behind the extensive empowerment of car-enterprise partners is Horizon’s long-term adherence to the open ecological strategy and the systematic construction of high-level intelligent driving ability.

　　For the development of advanced intelligent driving, Dr. Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon, said at the World New Energy Vehicle Congress during the 2023 Munich Motor Show that in the next five to ten years, we can look at the development of intelligent driving technology from two dimensions: the expansion of ODD and the level of user experience. At present, it is difficult for L4 software algorithm company, traditional chip company or Tier-1 to develop in two dimensions at the same time. Horizon will rely on the technical path of combining soft and hard to build the most perfect high-order intelligent driving ability system and continuously achieve breakthroughs in two dimensions.

　　This advanced intelligent driving capability system includes the industry-leading autonomous driving algorithm capability, the computing architecture and chips specially designed for advanced intelligent driving scenarios, as well as tool chains, development tools, application development kits, development of cloud infrastructure, and large-scale engineering mass production capability, which are indispensable elements for advanced intelligent driving to truly realize mass production popularization.

　　Specifically, for eco-partners, Horizon has built an efficient and open technology platform with "chip+tool chain" as the core, with the most complete and mature intelligent driving development environment in China, helping eco-partners to efficiently develop a variety of software and hardware solutions. Generally speaking, Horizon is a chip design company. Surprisingly, it also has a profound accumulation in software algorithms. With its excellent algorithm ability, Horizon’s chips have a higher computing occupation, and the reference algorithms provided to partners are rich in types and of great reference value. On the basis of the combination of software and hardware, Horizon’s Know-How advantage brought by millions of mass production experience also built a very deep moat for it.

　　For the horizon, the journey of high-level intelligent driving may have just begun. In 2023, more Journey 5 mass production cooperation models will usher in the landing moment. At the level of eco-partners, recently at the Munich Auto Show, Horizon booth made a brand-new appearance of a variety of intelligent driving domain control products based on Journey 5 from industrial chain partners such as Junlian Zhixing and Coboda. In addition, many software and hardware eco-partners, including canoe Zhihang, Xiaoma Zhixing, Zero Beam Technology and Heduo Technology, have successively launched intelligent driving mass production solutions based on Journey 5, which will also accelerate the mass production and popularization of advanced intelligent driving. Among them, canoe Zhihang has successfully won the fixed-point cooperation of mass production of several head car companies, taking the lead in mass production of BEV sensing technology based on Journey 5.

The new cooperation achievements of Horizon, Ampofo, Junlian Zhixing and Coboda (from left to right) were unveiled at the 2023 Munich Auto Show.

　　From accompanying "childhood sweetheart" LI to becoming better and better, to "technical flowing water" irrigation industry ecology "thousand acres of fertile land", the acceleration of the horizon is also more and more turbulent. LI’s next 500,000 units are ready to go, in which the horizon will still play an indispensable supporting role, and the shipments of Journey 5 will continue to refresh. On the road of intelligent transformation, the niche of Horizon Digital Base is becoming more and more stable, and it is bound to Win China and Win Global together with China smart car industry. (Photo: provided by Horizon)