Huawei's car BU's goal of breaking even is pinned on the new "Qiankun" brand. author | Cao Siqi edit JingyuOn April 24, Huawei held a smart car solution conference in Beijing. At the press conference, Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei Smart Car Solutions BU, officially launched a new brand "Qiankun" based on intelligence and launched the Qiankun ADS 3.0 smart driving solution. In November last year, Huawei and Changan Automobile signed an "Investment Cooperation Memorandum". According to the memorandum, Huawei will integrate the core technologies and resources of the smart car solution business (i.e. toB business, smart car selection business that does not involve toC) into the new entity company. On January 16 this year, Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. was established. Many media said that "Yinwang" was the new company established by Huawei Automotive BU.The release of the Qiankun brand is the latest progress in Huawei’s smart car solutions.Specifically, in the field of intelligent driving, Qiankun ADS 3.0 brings improvements from the four dimensions of architecture, safety, scene, and parking:Architecture:From the BEV+GOD network method, we fully switch to the GOD network. To put it simply, in the perception module of intelligent driving, the system switches from the past data annotation mode to a universal obstacle detection network based on 3D model learning, which is the "scene understanding" mentioned at today's press conference. generalization ability.At the same time, Jin Yuzhi also announced at the press conference that ADS3.0 will be upgraded to an end-to-end architecture. He particularly emphasized that Huawei will fully retain lidar in its sensing hardware, which is a significant difference from the "pure vision" solution promoted by Tesla, another leading smart driving company.
Safety:
The core is the upgraded obstacle recognition capability for forward and lateral safety.Full scene coverage:According to Jin Yuzhi, Qiankun ADS 3.0 will bring a full-scenario experience of "parking space to parking space" with one click. According to reports, this means that there will be no system degradation when approaching the destination parking lot, and there is no need to take over. "From public roads to park roads, from park ground to underground parking spaces" can all be realized through smart driving. Jin Yuzhi particularly emphasized that during the parking stage in the park, there is no need to rely on memorized routes for driving (memory routes can only be parked in fixed parking spaces), allowing for a more flexible experience.
Parking:
In addition to upgrading a more "extreme" smart parking experience, Huawei also announced the progress of "valet parking" launched when the Zhijie S7 was released - this is a similar L4 level in a parking lot environment. Auxiliary functions can realize unmanned parking. Huawei has set up a "whitelist" mechanism for this purpose. Before opening, it needs to comprehensively examine parking lot management, network coverage, etc., and then gradually open it.Currently, the "pick-up-and-go" function has covered 48 commercial parking lots in 8 cities, and 43 community or office parking lots in 6 cities. Jin Yuzhi said the goal is to cover 100 commercial parking lots and 2,000 community or office parking lots by the end of the year.At the press conference, Huawei also announced a series of cloud computing data in the field of intelligent driving: by June this year, the learning and training computing power will reach 3.5 EFLOPS, the daily cloud learning mileage will exceed 30 million kilometers, and a model iteration will be performed every 5 days. .It is worth mentioning that Huawei also released the Qiankun ADS SE version. Jin Yuzhi said at the press conference that ADS SE will "continue to be optimized at the L2 level." I wonder if this means that Qiankun ADS 3.0 and future versions have already targeted higher-level smart driving levels.Huawei also announced key information on other businesses in its smart car solutions, including: augmented reality head-up display system 2.0, megapixel smart light modules, Qiankun audio extraordinary series and Qiankun XSCENE light field screen. Jin Yuzhi said that Huawei's Qiankun optical field screen has entered the aftermarket.In the field of smart cockpits, Huawei's Hongmeng cockpit is currently equipped with more than 200 car-side applications, and 86% of commands are completed by voice control.Since Huawei entered the automotive business, it has invested a lot of research and development costs in intelligence, and has become the "first echelon" in the industry in the fields of smart cockpits and smart driving. In March this year, Huawei Managing Director, Consumer BG CEO, and Smart Car Solutions BU Chairman Yu Chengdong said at the China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum that Car BU lost 6 billion last year, but it has basically reached the edge of profit and loss in the first three months of this year, and is expected to It achieved a turnaround from losses to profits in April, forming a healthy and positive development.As of now, a total of 7 car companies with a total of 10 brands of models have used the Qiankun smart driving solution. Huawei stated that 2024 will be the first year of large-scale commercialization of intelligent driving, and it is expected that a total of 500,000 vehicles will be equipped with Qiankun Intelligent Driving by the end of the year.*Source of header image: HuaweiThis article is an original article by Geek Park. For reprinting, please contact Geek Jun WeChat geekparkGOThe original article was originally published on WeChat public account (Geek Park):Huawei has just released a new smart brand, aiming to have 500,000 vehicles on the road by the end of the year
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