Black sesame intelligence won the honor of "global new energy vehicle frontier and innovative technology" in 2022

From August 26 to 28, the fourth world new energy vehicle Conference (wnevc 2022) was jointly held in Beijing and Haikou. During the period, the results of the 2022 global new energy vehicle frontier and innovative technologies were announced at the conference. As the only chip enterprise this time, black sesame intelligence won the honor of "innovative technology" by virtue of the large computing power vehicle specification level automatic driving chip Huashan No. 2 a1000. Other enterprises on the list of "innovative technology" include leading enterprises in the industry such as BYD, Tesla, Weilai and BMW.

The selection of "global new energy vehicle frontier and innovative technology" is an important concurrent activity of the world new energy vehicle conference, aiming to accurately grasp the latest progress of global new energy vehicle in frontier technology research and innovative technology application, promote the cooperation and exchange of key technologies at home and abroad, and guide the accelerated breakthrough of new energy vehicle core technology.

"Innovative technology" requires that the technologies involved in the evaluation can solve the technical difficulties and technical bottlenecks in the key core fields of new energy vehicles, and that the technology must be applied to the mass production products and the mass production products have been put on the market. Huashan No. 2 a1000 chip was released in 2020. The computing power of a single chip of int8 precision reached 58tops. It has completed all vehicle regulation level certification. It is the automatic driving chip with the highest computing power in mass production in China. It is also the first domestic chip platform that complies with vehicle regulations and supports the integrated driving and parking controller with a single chip. Black sesame intelligence has reached a platform level strategic cooperation with Jiangqi group. A number of mass-produced models of Sihao brand will be equipped with huashan-2 a1000 chips, and more models equipped with huashan-2 a1000 series chips will be released in the future.

On the way of mass production of Huashan No. 2 a1000 chip, black sesame intelligence has also broken through a series of key technologies -- high reliable SoC Based on independent IP, AUTOSAR, full-function automatic driving middleware, strict vehicle specification test and various industry certifications, high-security operating system, high-performance neural network accelerator and tool chain. In this process, the independent controllable core IP gives huashan-2 a1000 chip a core competitive advantage. With Huashan No. 2 a1000 chip as the core, black sesame intelligence continues to promote the construction of domestic system software stack, autonomous and controllable tool chain and algorithm application.

As the industry-leading R & D enterprise of auto driving computing chips and platforms, black sesame intelligence creates competition barriers with its senior chip + auto composite team, open ecology and business model, and self-developed core technologies, and leads the independent innovation process of domestic chips with large computing power. Since its development in 2016, black sesame intelligence has become one of the "unicorns" in the chip field. In September 2021, black sesame intelligence completed the strategic round and round C financing, with a post investment valuation of nearly US $2 billion. In August this year, it announced that it had completed the round C + financing led by Wu Yuefeng science and technology innovation, and the accumulated financing of round C and round C + exceeded US $500 million.

The global automobile industry is experiencing a great change that has not been seen in a century, and is developing rapidly towards electrification, intelligence and sharing. Computing power provides driving force for the development of automatic driving. The era of computing power competition has created great opportunities for chip enterprises. The selection of Huashan No. 2 a1000 as "innovative technology" is the industry's affirmation of black sesame intelligence's self-research ability and technical achievements. In the future, black sesame intelligence will continue to promote the development of the domestic and global intelligent automobile industry with its strong product strength in China.