On December 31, FAW (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "FAW Nanjing") signed a project cooperation agreement with Black Sesame Intelligent Technology (Shanghai) Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "Black Sesame Intelligent") to jointly build a red flag core and computer integrated autonomous driving platform. The platform is a one-stop autonomous driving platform including domain controller hardware platform, software platform, artificial intelligence and visual algorithm platform. This agreement will further deepen the cooperation between the two sides in artificial intelligence chips, automotive AI, autonomous driving, advanced assisted driving (ADAS), visual perception and other fields, jointly promote the industrialization of autonomous driving, and establish a comprehensive, long-term and stable strategic partnership.
Faw Nanjing AI visual perception development department manager Yin Rongbin and Black Sesame Smart Market sales senior director Niu Guohao signed the project cooperation agreement
According to the agreement, relying on the advanced experience of FAW Nanjing in the field of vehicle manufacturing, as well as the leading technology of Black Sesame Intelligent in the field of autonomous driving chip and visual perception algorithm, the two sides will integrate the superior resources and work together to create an integrated automatic driving platform of red flag core computing based on the intelligent Huashan II A1000 chip of Black Sesame, and promote the deep cooperation in the direction of mass production of front loading of FAW. Serve Hongqi subsequent mass production models. At present, the development of the platform is progressing smoothly and has achieved phased results.
Red flag integrated automatic driving platform equipped with Black Sesame intelligent Huashan II A1000 chip
Previously, Black Sesame Intelligent has reached an important strategic cooperation with FAW Group and FAW Intelligent Network Development Institute, and set up a joint technical team for the next generation product research and development. This time, FAW Nanjing and Black Sesame Intelligent work together again, further strengthen cooperation, form a full range of deep cooperation from cutting-edge technology research and development, basic platform construction to mass production project cooperation.
Faw Nanjing General Manager Chen Bo spoke highly of the deepening cooperation between the two sides: "Black Sesame Intelligent has a very leading technical strength in the field of autonomous driving computing chips, and the cooperation between the two parties will accelerate the productization and commercial application of Hongqi core computing integrated autonomous driving platform. Together with Black Sesame Intelligent, we will jointly develop intelligent vehicle platform technology by virtue of our respective advantages in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, and provide core technical support for FAW Group's intelligent development."
"Faw Nanjing is a very important strategic partner for Black Sesame Smart," said Liu Weihong, co-founder and COO of Black Sesame Smart. This time, the two sides jointly promote the commercial landing of Hongqi core computer integrated autonomous driving platform and enable Hongqi's next generation of mass production models, which is an important breakthrough in China's autonomous driving field. In the future, we look forward to deepening our cooperation and accelerating the industrialization of autonomous driving in China based on our respective core technologies."
Faw (Nanjing) Technology Development Co., Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FAW Group Co., Ltd. in Jiangning District, Nanjing. Founded on April 9, 2020, relying on deep learning, data mining and other core artificial intelligence technologies, the company is committed to AI intelligent perception, AI intelligent interaction, AI big data, AI intelligent manufacturing, AI intelligent logistics and AI wisdom Technology research and development in six areas of travel. The mission of the company is to enable the automobile industry with artificial intelligence, comprehensively layout the whole industrial chain of "automobile +AI", and strive to build "China's first and world class" artificial intelligence research and development center.
With years of research and development experience and technology accumulation in the field of embedded image and computer vision, Black Sesame Intelligent can provide customers with an autonomous driving computing platform based on image processing, computational image and artificial intelligence, and provide complete commercial solutions for ADAS, autonomous driving, vehicle-road collaboration and other fields. Based on two self-developed core algorithms IP -- NeuralIQ ISP image signal processor and high-performance deep neural network algorithm platform DynamAI NN engine, Black Sesame Intelligence has launched two generations of vehicle gauge level autonomous driving computing chips, Huashan No.1 A500, Huashan No.2 A1000 and A1000L. Different solutions of single chip and multi-chip interconnection can support autonomous driving requirements from L2 to L4.
The project cooperation between Black Sesame Intelligent and FAW Nanjing will accelerate the commercialization process of autonomous driving in China. Through the establishment of comprehensive and in-depth cooperation, both parties will continue to achieve higher level of technology and product innovation in the direction of autonomous driving, jointly create future-oriented autonomous driving products, and lead the development of automotive intelligent industry.
