On June 15, Huawei cooperated with BYD to explore the plan of getting on the bus with Huawei Kirin chip, which marked Huawei's latest progress in intelligent
On June 15, Huawei cooperated with BYD to explore the plan of getting on the bus with Huawei Kirin chip, which marked Huawei's latest progress in intelligent solutions for 5G commercial and car networking. Previously, Huawei has launched boarding plans such as 5G communication chip and HiCar screen projection scheme, and this time it can be said to be an extension of the previous plan.
In fact, Huawei's layout in the automotive industry, especially in the field of car networking, has already begun. As early as 2065438+May 2009, Huawei President's Office released and set up a special smart car solution BU to do research in the field of smart cars. Xu Zhijun, the rotating CEO of Huawei Group, once said: "Huawei does not build cars, but Huawei will focus on ICT technology and build good cars for' car-making enterprises'." This is Huawei's positioning in the automotive field.
Huawei's goal is clear, not to enter the automobile manufacturing field with a long industrial chain, but to become an incremental automobile parts manufacturer based on its own ICT technology.
As an automobile company based on energy technology, BYD has been deeply involved in the field of new energy vehicles for a long time. BYD's research on automobiles, especially new energy vehicles, is more thorough. The two companies have their own advantages and disadvantages, and cooperation between them is inevitable.
Huawei wants more than just Kirin getting on the bus.
According to Huawei's plan, Huawei's positioning is to provide services for new energy vehicles, not traditional vehicles, for a reason. Traditional automobile originated in the west, and a large number of powerful automobile factories such as Germany, Japan and the United States have been formed. The global pattern has been set, but new energy vehicles are in the ascendant and have broad prospects. New energy vehicles also have new requirements for the reform of auto parts.
According to the prediction of third-party organizations, the global market share of smart connected vehicles will reach 380 million in 2020, and the market scale will reach more than 654.38+000 billion yuan. Even if you only participate in part, you will benefit a lot. At the same time, Huawei's smart phone business has gradually peaked, and its business development needs new kinetic energy.
As an important leader of the 5G wave, Huawei has obvious advantages in 5G applications and intelligent IOT technology. Building an intelligent networked world of "1+8+N" is also inseparable from the participation of automobiles, which is also an important reason for Huawei to participate in the construction of the automobile industry.
According to Huawei's rotating CEO Xu Zhijun, "Huawei's future intelligent networked car solutions include: intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent electric and intelligent communication."
Specifically, it includes an intelligent driving operating system based on Shengteng chip, an in-vehicle entertainment operating system based on Kirin chip and HarmonyOS OS, a vehicle management operating system for vehicle management of new energy vehicles (including charging, electric driving and battery management), and a human-vehicle interactive networking system for realizing vehicle networking.
In short, Kirin's "getting on the bus" is only one aspect of Huawei's layout in the automotive field. Huawei's goal is to enter the entire automobile industry chain.
Huawei still lacks a good helper for the deep layout of smart cars.
At the 5th International Automobile Key Technology Forum held on 20 19, Xu Zhijun, the rotating chairman of Huawei, said that Huawei's smart energy business includes mPower multi-mode electric drive, charging and battery management system. Because new energy vehicles are inseparable from power management, this business is regarded as the foundation of Huawei's smart car business.
From the specific technical point of view, Huawei also released Huawei in the technical forum. HiCharge's new product can be seen as the concrete landing of Huawei's solution in the field of smart energy.
In fact, the DC charging module developed by Huawei has the core advantages of high power density, high efficiency, high reliability and low noise, which can effectively reduce the quality problems of charging piles and reduce potential safety hazards. It can be seen that Huawei has some advantages in the management of smart cars.
In addition, the seamless HiCar system released by Huawei in August 2065438+2009, which aims to realize the "person-car-home" user experience, also has more practical functions. For example, HiCar system can realize vehicle-machine interaction, open the door with Hicar system through NFC provided by Huawei mobile phone, and remotely operate smart household appliances such as smart rice cookers, air conditioners and sweeping robots through Hicar system.
Huawei is also active in other fields. For example, with its profound technical accumulation, Huawei has become the sixth digital map service provider with Grade A electronic map qualification, which has added a lot of help to its entry into the field of intelligent driving.
However, if Huawei wants to make great achievements in the automotive field, it needs the help of external manufacturers. After all, Huawei is not a car manufacturer. It is not good at how to combine its own software application with auto parts and performance to maximize its value. This is also the reason why Huawei chose to cooperate with external automobile manufacturers.
So why did Huawei choose to cooperate with BYD?
Byd's specialty
There is no doubt that BYD is the leader of new energy vehicles in China. BYD started as an energy battery, has been deeply involved in the new energy vehicle market for many years, and has also gained a firm foothold. BYD is more like an "invisible" big brother in the new energy automobile circle than the "new power of making cars" advertised by many media.
According to the latest sales list of new energy vehicles, in the sales list of new energy vehicles in 20 19, BAIC EU series ranked first in the sales list with more than 1 10000 vehicles, followed by BYD.
In the top ten sales list, BYD Yuan EV series ranked second with 6 155 1 vehicle, BYD Tang DM ranked fifth with 34,084 vehicles, and BYD e5 ranked sixth with more than 32,000 vehicles. Among the top ten sales of new energy vehicles, BYD monopolizes three models and is unique in the top ten. The total sales of the three cars exceeded the first Beiqi New Energy. It can be seen that BYD's position in the new energy vehicle market.
BYD can achieve this result because it has been deeply cultivating new energy vehicles for a long time, and has unique advantages in energy battery research, new energy vehicle chip research and development, and vehicle manufacturing.
Specifically, BYD set up a special BYD battery company, focusing on battery research. At present, its batteries have been widely used in their own cars and some external manufacturers. BYD is also the largest manufacturer of automotive IGBT chips in China. At present, its IGBT chip version 4.0 has reached the international leading level, and it has many invention patents in the core "three electricity" technology field of electric vehicles.
Compared with the new force of building cars, BYD Auto was formerly Qinchuan Automobile with the background of state-owned manufacturers. Its foundation is more solid, the car is more professional and the comparison between the two sides is more stable. Judging from his deep cultivation in the field of pure electric power, he and Tesla started almost at the same time and are not inferior in many aspects.
From all aspects, the cooperation between Huawei and BYD is win-win. But in fact, there is no lack of competition while the two sides cooperate.
Consider further
Judging from their mass status, the cooperation between them has more profound significance. For example, BYD can further deepen the cooperation between BYD foundry and Huawei's other terminal businesses through cooperation.
In addition, with the separation and independence of BYD Semiconductor, the two may be able to spark more sparks in the chip field in the future. In particular, BYD Semiconductor has been involved in the whole industrial chain such as chip design, wafer foundry, packaging and testing, which can also help Huawei's future layout.
In addition, Huawei also has its own advantages in the research of in-vehicle chips and the upgrade of autonomous driving. In these areas, BYD will not be content to be just a nobody, and the possibility of deepening cooperation between the two is bound to be more. From this perspective, strengthening cooperation between the two is naturally the best arrangement.
Text/Liu kuangwei official account, ID: ID: liuquan110+00.
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