Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone (WHDZ) in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, is set to build a world-class automotive semiconductor industry following a strategic cooperation agreement signed between WHDZ-based Hubei Siengine Technology Co and Hubei Changjiang Economic Development Automobile Industry Investment Fund on Oct 20.
The project will develop the industry's top automotive electronic chips, and help the development zone to transform and upgrade. The settlement of this project will also fill the gap in Wuhan's high-end automotive chip industry.
Hubei Siengine Technology Co is a high-tech company focusing on the R&D, manufacturing and sales of high-performance automotive-grade integrated circuits and modules. The company's headquarters are located in WHDZ, with R&D centers set up in Beijing, Shanghai, and the United States.
According to industry insiders, compared to consumer chips and general industrial chips, automotive chips can handle a harsher working environment, with a temperature range of minus 40 to 155°C, and a higher tolerance of heavy vibration, excessive dust, and electromagnetic interference.
Due to personal safety issues, automotive chips have higher requirements for reliability and safety, and the general design life is 15 years or 200,000 kilometers.
Hubei Siengine Technology Co will launch the country's first high-end smart cockpit chip with a 7-nanometer process next year, and put it into mass production by 2022.
According to company officials, the SOC design of this product, with high performance, low power consumption, high flexibility, and a complex calculation model, integrates high-performance acceleration modules such as GPU, VPU, NPU, and ISP.
It can effectively meet the high-performance and complex application scenarios of high-end smart cockpit systems for in-vehicle entertainment, assisted driving and artificial intelligence, and is at the leading level in the domestic automotive chip industry.
