My Strength Does Not Allow Me to Low-key

It took only two days before Mr. Wang decided to sign a contract with Spark Technology to reach a strategic cooperation relationship.

Because although he has only been here for two days, Spark Technology has brought him too many surprises in these two days.

Here, he not only saw the millimeter-wave radar integrated camera sensor of Xinghuo Technology, but also saw the artificial intelligence programming solution given by the engineers behind them.

You must know that the biggest difference between the camera recognition sensor and the lidar sensor is that first of all, it does not have a long detection distance and the accuracy is not as high as that of the lidar sensor.

It is also very susceptible to changes in the lighting environment.

Therefore, in terms of identifying road obstacles, this kind of camera needs powerful artificial intelligence assistance.

To put it bluntly, it is a graphic recognition system!

On this issue, Tesla first asked Nvidia, the world's best graphics card company, to help them design a set of dedicated PX series chips.

By the third generation, they felt that Nvidia's chips were not enough, so they specially designed a set of FSD chips to solve the problem of matching the hardware with the artificial intelligence recognition system written by their own engineers.

Finally, relying on this combination of software and hardware, it not only created a first-class intelligent driving system, but also created the latest generation of on-board ECU.

Now Tesla has almost formed a sweeping trend in the domestic electric vehicle field.

Many people who don't understand cars, or those who don't understand electric vehicles, may be sour after seeing it, saying what does Tesla have?

Simple configuration, leaking water, and in terms of performance, it does not run much farther than other brands of electric cars. It is purely a thing for harvesting IQ tax.

But in fact, they don't understand that Tesla's selling point has never been a car.

What they buy is user experience and service!

In the final analysis, what they buy are all kinds of interactive electronic devices and supporting systems that those so-called pure car enthusiasts look down on.

Their selling point is the sense of technology and the future.

What they created is the kind that makes you feel that this is what the future car should look like when you get in the car.

What I bought was that advanced sense of technology!

Rather than traditional driving pleasure,

The quality of the vehicle.

Many people scoff at such a concept, but they forget how Apple killed Nokia back then.

It's like when the Apple mobile phone was first launched, the vice president of Nokia was still smashing walnuts with the Nokia mobile phone while mocking the Apple mobile phone.

As a result, it took only less than three years for Nokia to be pulled from the altar by Apple, and it withdrew from the mobile phone circle after five years.

And what Tesla is doing now is exactly what Apple was doing back then.

It's just that it will take them longer this time.

Now, in China, the only company that can keep up with Tesla is BYD in the field of electric vehicle manufacturing.

They are like Samsung in the mobile phone industry back then. Although the brand influence is not as great as Apple, they also have the advantages of the entire industry chain.

At least in terms of hardware, they are not much behind Tesla, and even in terms of power batteries, they are ahead of Tesla with the technology of blade batteries.

The only thing that can't keep up with Tesla is in terms of software. To put it bluntly, it is creating a sense of science fiction and providing customers with experience.

They are still much worse than the old beauty who is good at marketing.

Fortunately, they have realized this before, so they have already launched the cooperation with Huawei.

And now the Starfire Technology, which was born out of nowhere, has made up for their technical shortcomings.

You must know that Tesla's Autopilot automatic driving system has been thrown in billions of dollars back and forth, and it has been developed for more than ten years.

Now that BYD wants to catch up, Huawei's help is not enough. After all, many hardware aspects are still missing.

Especially the weakest sensor in our country, and because the road conditions in our country are very complicated, especially in many cities, there are still a large number of non-motorized vehicles.

And many non-motor vehicles and pedestrians on the road don't like to obey the traffic rules.

Riding an electric vehicle and running a red light is a common occurrence.

This requires the sensors used in our cars to be more sensitive...

Originally, our sensor technology was not up to standard, but now we still put forward such high requirements, which is difficult for BYD engineers.

If you want to create an electric car that can compete with Tesla, you must work hard to create a sense of technology and improve the driving experience.

To create a sense of technology, it is necessary to install more sensors on the vehicle, but now domestic suppliers simply cannot provide so many high-quality sensors.

Speaking of sensors, especially cutting-edge sensors, they are basically in the hands of the Americans and Japanese.

The problem BYD is facing now is to find a suitable supply channel first.

And those American manufacturers and Japanese manufacturers did not say that they would not supply them, but the supply conditions were very strict and the prices were very high.

For example, a sensor similar to that used in Tesla cars may cost hundreds of dollars to sell to Tesla, but thousands of dollars to sell them.

This will greatly increase the cost of BYD, and this is the main reason that plagues the development of BYD electric vehicles.

Some time ago, Mr. Wang gritted his teeth and set up another department, intending to specialize in sensors.

But I didn't expect to start making sensors, and then I knew how far we were from others.

For example, some raw materials to be used for sensors, the simplest relays, inductive switches, and the most basic electronic components such as ceramic inductors, ceramic beads, filters, oscillators, vibration sensors, etc.

Our domestic products are not good enough...

It's not that we don't have these electronic components, but that we have them, but they are all third-rate goods.

So if you want to use these third-rate goods to assemble a first-class sensor, it is undoubtedly a dream.

As for the sensors used in the car, this is not an ordinary thing, it must be very precise and durable.

Otherwise, if it is used in a car, the sensitivity will not be good, and you will not be able to sense what should be sensed.

Or it will break after two or three days of use.

Such a product will not only help you improve the driving experience of your customers, but will also make your customers angry.

Not only will it not enhance your brand power, but it will also destroy your brand.

So during that time, Mr. Wang had a terrible headache.

Well now, this Xinghuo who popped up suddenly has a comprehensive solution technology in his hands.

Especially this sensor that has been giving them headaches, it feels like walking in the desert, people who are about to die of thirst, and suddenly find an oasis in front of them.

Saved!

To be honest, BYD has been manufacturing electric vehicles in China for many years.

But before that, BYD has not been too motivated in the field of private electric vehicles.

Although some good products have been launched, the company has not focused on this.

Firstly, there is no domestic competition pressure. Although there were a lot of electric vehicle manufacturers in China in the past few years, none of them could really threaten BYD's position in this field.

Secondly, the domestic electric vehicle consumer market has not been very mature and its market share is limited. This is also the main reason why BYD has no motivation in this field.

And the main focus of BYD before was on building electric buses.

After all, the profit of electric buses is much higher than that of private cars.

A private car, after the subsidy, is only more than 200,000.

And electric buses cost four to five million at every turn, and they are often exported to foreign countries to earn foreign exchange.

Moreover, electric buses are not like private cars. It is not difficult to create a driving experience and a sense of technology.

So at that time BYD preferred to build buses.

But now after Tesla entered the domestic market, BYD found out that it wasn't that there was not much demand for electric vehicles in the domestic market.

It's that their previous thinking was only wrong.

Otherwise, if you look at Tesla, they buy tens of thousands of units a month, and the orders alone can be scheduled for a few months.

Although they also had all kinds of negative news after going public, they still couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the people for their consumption.

Are those consumers all fools?

Are they really not patriotic?

No, but because domestic electric vehicle manufacturers did not meet their demands and give them what they wanted like Tesla did.

It is precisely because of knowing its own shortcomings that BYD began to seek to make changes.

But when they really wanted to get serious, they realized that things were not as simple as that.

It turned out that they really couldn't learn many of the seemingly simple advantages of Tesla. The money they spent for more than ten years was really not in vain.

At least in many fields, they have formed their own technical moats.

And it wasn't until the emergence of Spark Technology that they had the confidence to directly break through the moat.

Especially their set of camera sensors that inherited the millimeter wave radar.

This not only reduces the cost, but also greatly improves the technical content.

The most important thing is that they didn't just make the sensors of the front perception layer for you.

Even the early stage of decision-making is done for you.

Generally, intelligent assisted driving is divided into three levels, the perception layer, the decision-making layer, and the execution layer.

The sensor is the key to the perception layer, and the decision-making layer is the set of AI.

And this aspect has always been the most lacking of BYD, so they approached Warwick to cooperate, hoping that Warwick can help them solve software problems.

Now, Xinghuo Technology has actually done all the artificial intelligence for pattern recognition that decision-makers need, which is to help decision-makers solve a big problem.

After all, they are not Tesla. They are rich enough to make a set of FSD chips for identifying items.

Now they just need to join hands with Huawei and let Huawei's system programmers run through a set of logic commands for executing decisions based on Spark Technology's graphic recognition...