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On February 22nd, SAIC passenger vehicles under SAIC Group announced that it had reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation with Horizon Robotics, a smart chip company.

According to the agreement, Horizon will provide a complete intelligent driving solution based on the full range of journey 2, journey 3 and journey 5 chips based on SAIC passenger car requirements, integrating the technical capabilities of Horizon Journey series intelligent chips, visual perception algorithms, data closed loops and other fields, focusing on Advanced Auxiliary driving (ADAS), self-driving and intelligent cockpit multimodal interaction. To build a sustainable and evolutionary smart car for SAIC passenger cars.

Data show that Horizon, founded in July 2015, is the only automotive smart chip enterprise in China that has been verified by pre-loading and production. As for SAIC passenger cars, it is a passenger car company under SAIC Group, with Roewe, Mingjue and SAIC R brands.

At present, the shortage of chips in global car companies is increasing, and a number of overseas car companies are facing the situation of reducing or suspending production due to the loss of chip supply. However, apart from the shortage of semiconductors that caused car companies to reduce or stop production, the production of chip companies was affected by the 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Japan and the power outage caused by the cold wave in Texas in the United States, which made Japanese car companies, which were originally facing the chip crisis, even worse.

According to the latest report, the shortage of automotive chips is expected to reduce global car production by 1 million vehicles in the first quarter of this year, an increase from the original forecast of 672000 vehicles, and this number will continue to rise. As for the reasons for the shortage of chips, the epidemic has affected many links from R & D and design to manufacturing packaging, resulting in confusion in the whole chip industry.

Compared with overseas car companies. It is rare for domestic car companies to get stuck because of the chip. BYD, the leading manufacturer of automotive specification-grade semiconductor chips in China, has said that the chips are not only self-sufficient but also external. Zhixin Semiconductor Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Dongfeng Motor Group, said the production line with an annual production capacity of 300000 sets of power chip modules will be put into mass production in April.

In terms of this cooperation, the car can not only alleviate the capacity problems caused by the current chip shortage, but also create a next-generation intelligent driving domain controller and system scheme for Tesla FSD. Some industry insiders said that analysts generally expect that the joint venture between SAIC passenger cars and Horizon will enhance the core competitiveness of SAIC's intelligent network-linked products and speed up the strategic pace of SAIC passenger vehicles to build all-energy and global enterprises.

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