Volkswagen to develop in-house smart driving chip with Horizon Robotics

Volkswagen has made significant commitments to Chinese semiconductor and AI technologies to bolster its smart car capabilities, especially in the Chinese market, where competition is fierce from local rivals who are being supported by the Chinese government. The company has now made two new announcements heralding developments that are no doubt geared towards giving Volkswagen a better fighting chance in the Chinese market. On Wednesday, Volkswagen revealed that CARIZON, its joint venture with China’s Horizon Robotics, is working on developing its first in-house chip to power the smart driving capabilities to be equipped in the next generation of cars it will release in the Chinese market. The company says the chip will be useful for processing data from cameras and sensors in a car with a single-chip computing power of around 500 to 700 tera operations per second (TOPS). The product can be expected to hit the shelves within the...

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