Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

Now that Nanshan Semiconductor's Imperial Capital Factory has officially been put into production, it is natural that something has to happen.

Previously, everyone focused on the 14-nanometer process.

This is indeed very important, but for Cao Yang, Nanshan Semiconductor has another trump card that has not been announced to the public, and that is the flagship product of the Imperial Capital Factory.

Compared with the 14nm process chips that many companies are launching one after another, how to produce ultra-high computing power chips based on this chip to provide support for the development of high-end smartphones and electric vehicles is obviously more important.

Under the influence of future cars, the screens of electric vehicles are getting larger and larger, and the number of screens is also increasing.

Models like the W9 not only have a screen in the center console, but there is also a screen in front of the co-pilot.

Behind the front seats, there are also two screens.

In addition, there are many cameras, radars and other parts in the vehicle that need to be controlled by chips, so the computing power requirements for the chips are very high.

That is to say, it was only L2 level autonomous driving before, and the overall requirements were not very high.

So by adding a few more chips, it can basically be done.

But each screen requires its own independent chip to control, and the cost is very high.

And although the computing power of these chips is already relatively powerful, it is just that.

This time, the Nanshan Semiconductor Imperial City Factory is preparing to completely subvert this situation, using the 14-nanometer process to produce ultra-high computing power autonomous driving main control chips, or to produce smart cockpit chips.

The self-driving main control chip is used by myself. It is considered the core competitiveness of future cars. It has no intention of selling it externally, so it does not plan to promote it to customers.

But the smart cockpit chip is different. This can be sold casually and used to make a lot of money.

Compared with previous car-grade chips, the NS8155 chip launched by Nanshan Semiconductor this time was developed to fully benchmark the performance of the later Qualcomm 8155 smart cockpit chip, but the chip manufacturing process has not yet reached 14 nanometers.

But the final computing power reached 8TOPS (1TOPS means that the processor can perform one trillion operations per second).

For semiconductor companies in this era, GOPS (1GOPS means the processor can perform one billion operations per second) and MOPS (1MOPS means the processor can perform one million operations per second) are familiar units.

Nanshan Semiconductor's NS8155 immediately increased the computing power to the order of TOPS. The impact on the entire chip industry is absolutely huge.

“曹总、饶总、曾总，我们的NS8155是一款强大的8核车载芯片，它采用了先进的1+3+4的8核心设计。”

"The main frequency of the large core is as high as 2.96GHz, the main frequency of three high-performance cores is 2.42GHz, and the main frequency of four low-power small cores is 1.8GHz."

"Such a configuration makes its CPU performance surpass all current automotive-grade chips in the industry."

Zhang Jing personally explained the situation of the NS8155 chip to Cao Yang, Rao Yongxiang, Zeng Tingting and others.

According to the plan, this chip will be installed on the future car S9 model for the first time.

The previous trial vehicle used the NS8155 produced in the laboratory. Now it has entered mass production. Whether it can meet all aspects of performance requirements must be carefully evaluated.

Compared with mobile phone chips or computer chips, the difficulty of developing automotive chips is that they need to adapt to harsher working environments. Whether it is high or low temperature environments, they must be better adaptable.

At the same time, there are clear specifications for corrosion resistance, dustproof and waterproof standards.

This is also to ensure the safety of vehicle driving. Otherwise, it would be too dangerous if the screen, head-up display, and smart cockpit are all unusable when the screen is black while the vehicle is driving.

So normally, the development of automotive chips requires a long process, and the testing process is particularly complex and lengthy.

The development goal of the NS8155 chip is to become the most top-notch configuration in the industry, achieving a good balance in computing power, performance, and software adaptability.

"Academician Zhang, can you briefly explain the benefits of this NS8155 chip?"

Zeng Tingting is in sales, so she naturally hopes to introduce her technical advantages to consumers in simple and easy-to-understand terms.

Otherwise, even people in the automotive industry cannot understand what you are saying, and there will definitely be no way to resonate with consumers.

“Nowadays, the main functions of high-end electric vehicles generally include multiple display screens in the cockpit, maps, Internet of Vehicles, car APPs, 360 panoramic cameras, automatic parking and driving recorders, etc.”

"These functions currently give car owners the most intuitive experience whether the car is smooth or not."

“After using our NS8155, you don’t need to worry about the car running smoothly.”

"At least in the next three years, the performance of our NS8155 will be world-leading."

At this moment, Zhang Jing can be said to be full of confidence.

Although many chip companies are also optimistic about the development of new energy vehicles and products closely related to electric vehicles such as smart cockpit chips.

Even TI, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Intel, Renesas and other companies have made some arrangements in this regard.

Especially Nvidia, as a former subsidiary of Nanshan Semiconductor, although it was forced to sell out, Nanshan Semiconductor is still very aware of Nvidia's movements.

Everyone is investing R&D resources to develop smart cockpit chips related to electric vehicles and other products that are completely different from existing fuel vehicle chips.

An ordinary fuel vehicle chip has a computing power of 8TOPS, let alone one.

Even if you use a 200-nanometer process to produce a chip with 1GOPS computing power, it will be enough for ECU, ESP and other control parts.

After all, the data these control systems need to process is far lower than that of smart cockpit chips.

“How is Qualcomm’s current research on similar products?”

Since the NS8155 draws on many of the layout and performance arrangements of the 2019 chip released by Qualcomm in 8155, Cao Yang must be paying close attention to Qualcomm's news.

"Qualcomm's ambitions are not limited to the mobile phone field. It is also actively deploying in the automotive field, especially smart cockpit chips."

"This is an area that has many similarities with mobile phone chips, but has different challenges and opportunities."

"According to the news we have heard, Qualcomm will officially release the first-generation digital cockpit platform Snapdragon S602A series next year. This is Qualcomm's first step into the automotive field and the beginning of Qualcomm's smart car business."

"S602A is a quad-core processor based on 28nm process, mainly used in car entertainment systems. Our preliminary information is that the performance and quality of this chip are not outstanding. It is estimated that it will not be used in our NS8155 by then. What's the threat?"

"However, they didn't know before that we developed the NS14 based on the 8155-nanometer process, and its performance is countless times higher than that of the S602A."

"After our NS8155 is officially released, I estimate that Qualcomm will soon design a new smart cockpit chip based on the 14nm process."

I have to say that Zhang Jing's vision is still very good.