Chapter 159 It’s Him!

Cao Shen felt that the round-faced lady was his supporting actor, and replied with a smile:

"The three-electric system refers to the battery, motor and electronic control of the car. They replace the internal combustion engine, gearbox and other devices of traditional fuel vehicles and are important components of electric vehicles.

The development of its technology also determines the performance indicators of electric vehicles.

Our country has technical reserves in the "three-electric" technology, especially battery technology has entered the world's first echelon.

The reason why I advocate the vigorous development of electric vehicles in the East is that our country has this ability.

We can avoid a lot of patent barriers in electric vehicles and have the opportunity to overtake on the curve!

Of course, electric vehicles have another advantage, energy saving and environmental protection, if the battery recycling work is done well."

The tall man clenched his fist on the table tightly, and couldn't help trembling slightly.

The automobile industry, the efforts and dreams of two generations.

Overtaking on the curve!

There are indeed one or two companies in China that are making electric vehicles. They launched products in 2008, but because of the range problem, the maximum is 80 kilometers at a time, and charging and replacing batteries is very inconvenient, and the performance is not very good, consumers don't buy it.

Basically, it is a matter of losing money to gain publicity, so traditional domestic car manufacturers are not active in making electric cars.

This leads to the inability to keep up with subsequent research and development, and the company's main business is still fuel vehicles. There is no motivation for transformation and no conditions for transformation.

For them, making electric cars is too heavy a burden.

He himself has obviously studied new energy vehicles, and they do have the advantages that Cao Shen said.

Of course, he did not think about centralization and autonomous driving at the time, and he did not dare to think about them because they were too advanced.

At the beginning, he just wanted to save energy and protect the environment as a substitute for fuel vehicles for urban commuting.

He did not expect such a big layout and prospect.

Moreover, because the market does not actually buy it, making electric cars is a matter of losing money and having no economic benefits. Even national leaders cannot violate market principles and force car companies to do it.

If car companies are unwilling to do it, there is no question of overtaking on the curve.

A car takes four or five years to develop, and no car company dares to bet on new energy vehicles to overtake on the curve.

It is very likely that the car has not been made, or the car has not sold a few cars, and the car factory has gone bankrupt in four or five years.

So, this is a beautiful thing to think about, but it is very difficult to execute.

The tall man looked at Cao Shen, his eyes shining.

But, he can do it!

He does not have the burden of traditional car companies, he can go into battle lightly.

It is not those car companies that can achieve overtaking in the country's automobile industry, but Cao Shen!

It is him who has the opportunity to lead our domestic cars into the first echelon!

Cao Shen continued:

"New energy vehicles not only have the opportunity to make our country's automobile industry overtake in the corner, but also use a brand-new electronic and electrical structure to achieve autonomous driving.

It can also improve the level of our entire automobile industry chain, and have the opportunity to make more upstream and downstream suppliers of the industry chain become the world's top suppliers.

In the traditional automobile industry chain, the downstream vehicle manufacturers need to master core technologies such as engines, chassis and gearboxes.

New energy vehicles will change the traditional automobile industry chain structure that has lasted for a hundred years. In the new industry chain, the research and development of core components will gradually separate from car companies.

Downstream vehicle manufacturers can outsource batteries, electronic controls, and motors, and at the same time, some intelligent hardware and auxiliary Driving assistance chips and even autonomous driving chips can also be developed in cooperation with other companies.

All of this will lower the entry threshold for vehicle manufacturers, allowing more people to join the new energy vehicle industry, and the entire industry will be more prosperous.

I predict that many new companies specializing in electric vehicles will emerge in the future, and more talents will accumulate here.

This will also drive the technology and market development of each link in the industrial chain.

In addition, some auxiliary services, such as charging piles, battery swap stations and other aftermarkets will also be born, and will gain greater development space as the number of users increases. "

"Cao Shen!" The tall man shouted and slapped the table with his hand:

"You have to make cars well , I support you in whatever you need!"

"I support you too!" Old man Yu said, not to be outdone:

"But I have another question, Cao Shen, you said before that you want to build a central control domain.

According to my immature understanding, does this require a main chip with very strong computing power?

As you said, if you want to do autonomous driving in the future, then this chip may have extremely high performance requirements.

In this regard, do you plan to outsource? Are there any chips on the market that can meet this requirement? "

Cao Shen replied:

"It is indeed as you said, the leader, the future changes in automotive electronic and electrical architecture and autonomous driving will cause explosive growth in automotive computing power demand, and the automotive industry will set off a computing boom. Power arms race.

Cars need to process a large amount of unstructured data such as pictures and videos, and processors also need to integrate multiple data such as radar and video.

And it needs to integrate multiple data, decision and planning algorithms, calculation results and execution control.

This process requires a powerful computing platform to unify real-time analysis, process massive data and perform complex logical operations.

And for each additional level of autonomous driving, the computing power requirement increases by an order of magnitude.

We have estimated that the computing power required for the L2 level is 30 to 60TOPS, and 1TOPS means that the processor can perform one trillion calculations per second.

The computing power required for L4 is greater than 100TOPS.

At least 4000GB of data will be generated per day per L5 vehicle, which requires 1000TOPS or more.

Under such huge data, master control chips with AI capabilities will become mainstream.

The structure of automotive master control chips will also develop from MCU to SOC heterogeneous chips.

There are currently no chips on the market that can fully meet the conditions, so we plan to make them ourselves!

The planned chips are composed of three parts: AI computing units mainly for intelligent computing, CPU units and control units.

The master control chip SOC is composed of CPU, GPU, DSP, NPU, various peripheral interfaces, storage units, etc.

Of course, it will take time for us to make chips. It is impossible to make chips with hundreds of TOPS in one go, but it will gradually meet the computing power requirements from L1 to L5.

In order to make good chips, we acquired the company MIPS.

However, because it is a cross-border acquisition, we are still waiting for the approval of the Ministry of Commerce. ”

Boss Xiao is helping with the acquisition, but because the Ministry of Commerce has changed its team, the entire foreign strategy has changed significantly from the past.

In the past, the country placed the "technological strategy" abroad at the top of the list, and would rather sacrifice the negotiation space for foreign trade in other industries to find a way to "drain" the core technology back.

But now the entire strategy has changed, and the "technological strategy" sometimes has to make concessions.

With Boss Xiao here, the acquisition of MIPS will definitely be implemented in the end, but it may take a long time.

At the suggestion of Boss Xiao, Cao Shen was also encouraged to urge other departments to exert pressure together.

Old man Yu was very surprised:

"MIPS is what you want to acquire?

Good boy!

You have done so much work!

It's stuck at the Ministry of Commerce, right? We will all do some work for you later!

Chip research and development is not easy, but you should be able to lay a good foundation with MIPS in hand.

Awesome, they make their own chips, young people are amazing..."

Old man Yu was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling, the chips were in his hands.

If Cao Shen really figured it out in the future, it would be an incredible political achievement.

And looking at his layout, he is well prepared and determined!

The chip industry in Dongguo is also a generation behind...

Come on! The old man supports you!

Although old man Yu's idea is beautiful, in reality, if Cao Shen wants to make such a powerful chip, the value that MIPS can contribute is not that high.

The entire chip structure is probably a brand new architecture, and it is probably more reliable to expect him to exchange his life for it.

The black-faced man was so excited that his eyes were shining. If there was no table blocking him, he would have rushed over and said anxiously:

"I have a research institute under me, and I also study chips. Xiao Cao, just ask for any support you need when the time comes!"