Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

While Venustech was working quickly to constantly refresh everyone's cognition, Nanshan Semiconductor was also busy.

The smart cockpit chip and autonomous driving chip that used the 14-nanometer chip process have been released and have become the ones with the highest computing power in the industry.

Now Nanshan Semiconductor's 7-nanometer process technology has been developed, and four factories are under intensive construction.

Under such circumstances, Nanshan Automobile Group is naturally eager to cooperate with Nanshan Semiconductor to launch a new generation of high-computing power chips.

With the rapid development of new energy vehicles, various assisted driving and smart cockpit related functions have become an important part of what distinguishes new energy vehicles from traditional fuel vehicles.

In particular, with the addition of new car manufacturers, they continue to use some Internet thinking to promote various marketing of new energy vehicle projects, making the competition in the industry more intense.

If you use a NS8155 from Nanshan Semiconductor, the computing power is only 8TOPS.

Then I will use two NS8155s, and the computing power will be twice as much as yours.

Soon, a new product was announced to be equipped with 4 NS8155 chips, and the computing power soared to 32TOPS.

Although compared with the computing power of electric vehicles ten years later, 32TOPS is not particularly outstanding.

But in 2015, it was definitely the world's number one.

Even the S9 of Future Car currently only has two NS2 chips with a computing power of only 8155TOPS.

In this case, it is definitely necessary to upgrade as soon as possible.

"Mr. Cao, our new generation of NS9155 chips have been successfully developed and will start mass production at the end of this year along with the commissioning of the new Nanshan Semiconductor factory."

"Compared with NS8155, the computing power of this chip has soared from 8TOPS to 64TOPS, which completely exceeds the computing power level of the current mass-produced products and new products announced by other manufacturers."

"And with the increase in computing power, our energy consumption has not only not increased, but has dropped by more than half, which can reduce the power consumption of electric vehicles by one level."

"Under the same circumstances, the range of electric vehicles using these chips can be increased by at least 3%, and this impact can completely offset the increase in chip sales prices."

"After all, to improve battery life, the previous approach was to increase battery capacity, but this would lead to a significant increase in battery costs."

Zhang Jing, with a radiant face, personally reported to Cao Yang about the latest achievements of Nanshan Semiconductor.

Nanshan Semiconductor's foundation is becoming increasingly solid.

Not only is it ahead of its competitors in production capacity, but it has also completely surpassed them in technology.

This will have an extraordinary impact on Nanshan Semiconductor and the entire China.

As an academician, Zhang Jing's voice in the semiconductor industry has increased significantly in the past two years.

He has participated in various chip-related industry standards in recent years.

Even if he votes against it, the relevant standards will not be released.

He was invited several times by relevant departments to introduce chip knowledge to senior executives.

"If NS9155 doesn't come out soon, Zeng Tingting will probably be worried about you."

“When the S9 was released, they said their computing power was the best in the world, but a year later, it was surpassed by other new cars.”

“But now with NS9155, the situation is completely different.”

Cao Yang joked with a smile.

As a leading company in the domestic automobile industry, Nanshan Automobile Group certainly hopes to be ahead of the industry in computing power.

The publicity effect of this industry benchmark is actually very huge and difficult to measure with simple data.

Just like the several models of Tesla in later generations, any manufacturer of electric cars will definitely use Tesla's products for comparison and explanation before developing their own products.

They will not stop until they have proven that their equipment and performance in all aspects are no worse than others.

Invisibly, this can be regarded as a very good advertisement for Tesla.

Future Automobile's current position in the electric vehicle industry is a bit like Tesla's position in the industry in its previous life.

No wonder Zeng Tingting was so anxious.

“When we designed NS9155, we fully considered the compatibility with NS8155.”

"In extreme cases, you only need to remove the NS8155 chip, replace it with the NS9155, and then flash the software to complete the upgrade."

"This should be very attractive to some manufacturers."

"This can even be provided to some 4S stores in the aftermarket for optional upgrades."

Zhang Jing further introduced the advanced features of the NS9155 chip.

For car manufacturers, once a car is produced, it will normally take several years for it to be upgraded.

Otherwise, if you replace the model before all costs are recovered, the cost will be too high.

For example, the body structure will not be changed easily, because every change requires the corresponding parts to be re-molded.

A minimum of several million, a maximum of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars were thrown in.

It doesn’t matter if the sales are good, but if the sales are not ideal, it will be difficult to make money.

"Compatibility is indeed very important. In the future, all models will gradually have OTA upgrade functions."

"If the hardware cannot be coordinated with OTA, the effect of software upgrade alone will be much worse."

"It would be best if all the automotive-grade chips we develop in the future are compatible with the previous generation of chips."

Cao Yang is very satisfied with NS9155, which was moved to Nanshan.

With a computing power of 64TOPS, it is definitely the best in the world.

For most car models, only one chip is needed to meet the computing power requirements of the entire vehicle.

If two are carried, a lot of tasks can be accomplished.

Even if someone can develop L3 autonomous driving function in advance, it can basically meet the requirements.

Of course, Nanshan Semiconductor will certainly make further efforts in the future.

By then, the computing power of a chip will reach hundreds of TOPS or even thousands of TOPS, and the meaning will be even more different.

"Yeah, that's what I thought too."

"This time, I plan to hold a product recommendation meeting to show the excellent performance of NS9155 and invite various car companies to participate."

“Let everyone know the benefits of our NS9155 and stimulate competition among them.”

The selling price of an NS9155 is more than RMB 1000.

For such an expensive product, if there are no various incentive measures, only a small number of car companies will be willing to actively use it.

However, if everyone competes with each other and promotes chip computing power as a core competitive advantage of automobiles, the situation will be completely different.

"No problem, good things should be known to more people."

Cao Yang, who has always attached great importance to publicity work, would definitely not object to Zhang Jing's proposal.