The hottest topic in today’s technology world is “building cars”.
It has been asserted that cars are the most powerful equipment that will "dominate" terminal services in the next ten years!
If you still have doubts about this view, then the hot Tesla and the hot capital market should bring you closer to the answer.
Now, will Lenovo start building cars like its neighbor Baidu?
On March 12, a long picture titled "Chinese Wisdom on Wheels" released by Lenovo Group's official WeChat account sparked heated discussions in the industry. The outside world believed that Lenovo was empowering new companies through years of technology accumulation. Energy vehicle field. At present, Lenovo's Internet of Vehicles technology has been applied to new car-making forces such as NIO, Xpeng, and AIWAYS.
It is reported that this is the first time Lenovo has disclosed the company's layout and progress in the Internet of Vehicles after announcing that it will be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board. In fact, Lenovo has already made plans for the new energy vehicle field, and there is a new energy vehicle parked in the Lenovo Future Center exhibition hall. It is reported that the car uses the Internet of Vehicles technology independently developed by Lenovo, and the staff will conduct on-site demonstrations for customers who come to visit.
Lenovo Group Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing said that Lenovo is one of the few industry leaders in the world that covers all elements of "end-edge-cloud-network-intelligence". New IT serves as the "nerve of infrastructure Internet of Vehicles" "Line" plays a "central" role and joins hands with the whole industry to build "Chinese wisdom on wheels" in the new historical period.
Lenovo is ahead of the curve in laying out the entire car manufacturing industry chain
Lenovo has laid out new energy vehicles very early, covering all aspects of the industry chain.
Lenovo Intelligent Communications is a subsidiary successfully incubated under the Lenovo ecosystem, and has now become an "important part" of Lenovo's layout in the Internet of Vehicles. Now, Lenovo Communications has in-depth cooperation with upstream and downstream enterprises such as NIO and CATL.
Among them, the cooperation between Lenovo and NIO dates back to 2016. That year, Lenovo participated in NIO's Series C financing, and at Lenovo's 2017 Global Technology Innovation Conference, it officially announced a strategic cooperation with NIO to jointly develop a smart car computing platform.
Now, Lenovo Intelligent Communications provides customized Internet of Vehicles connection management services for NIO, helping NIO to open up data connectivity between vehicle backend systems, car APPs, and vehicles to achieve vehicle intelligence. Driving; it has also signed strategic cooperation agreements with Yangtze Motor and AIWAYS, relying on the advantages of their respective industries and technical fields.
In terms of energy and power, Lenovo has also invested in CATL, the leader in new energy batteries. As one of the rare projects that Lenovo Venture Capital entered into in the mid-to-late stage, Zeng Hezhiqiang, Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group and President of Lenovo Venture Capital Group, said that “it’s worth investing even if it’s expensive.” The reason is: “If clean energy batteries are the future, then CATL is It may be PetroChina and Sinopec in the future. 80 billion is not much, (the future market value) may be over one trillion.”
In addition, in the field of chips, Lenovo has invested in BYD Semiconductor and Xinchi Technology; In the driving field, there are Qingzhou Zhihang, Yiqing Technology, Zhongke Huiyan and other emerging companies focusing on autonomous driving and computer vision technology; in terms of complete vehicles, the invested company NIO has now become the "leader" in the field of new energy vehicles ; In the field of smart transportation “brain”, Lenovo has selected Shenzhen Communications, a powerful player.
It can be seen from Lenovo's new energy vehicle industry layout that Lenovo has completely covered all aspects of the transportation industry such as "urban transportation brain", vehicle-road collaboration, smart interconnection, vehicle experience, energy and power, etc.
Lenovo is sought after by new car-making forces
At present, 85 of China’s new car manufacturers have chosen Lenovo (Understanding Communications) as a partner.
Among them, Lenovo Communication provides customized Internet of Vehicles connection management services for NIO, helping NIO to open up the data connection between the vehicle backend system, car APP, and vehicles, through 23 key The sensor device ensures real-time connection and acquisition of data, enabling ES8 to have a data processing capability of 2.5 trillion times per second and a response time of only 20 milliseconds, enabling intelligent driving of the entire vehicle;
Provide customized Internet of Vehicles connection management services, through multiple APN separate billing capabilities, help Xpeng Motors provide car owners with subsidies for cost-based services (such as data collection, voice control, firmware upgrades, map navigation, driving services, etc.), achieving operation driven by car owners Business services have achieved nearly 75% growth (such as online music, online radio, audio books, online videos, etc.);
Provide customized Internet of Vehicles connection management services for AIWAYS, through overseas Internet of Vehicles services ( Local testing), effectively solving AIWAYS’s transnational management and operation problems.
Behind Lenovo’s success in winning the favor of new car-making forces is Lenovo’s proven leading technological strength, as well as Lenovo’s all-round and multi-dimensional cooperation in global connectivity, smart car connectivity, smart manufacturing, and capital. , and strive to create smart car networking platform products and services.
In this regard, Lenovo Group Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing said that accelerating the digital and intelligent transformation of all walks of life is inseparable from the support and enabling role of "new IT" infrastructure. In the era of intelligence, the transformation and upgrading of transportation has evolved from automobile manufacturing and road transportation infrastructure to the comprehensive collaborative evolution of communication networks and transportation system management, that is, based on the "end-edge-cloud-network-intelligence" technology architecture and the Internet of Vehicles Representing advanced information technology empowering transportation infrastructure.
The current needs of automobile companies focus on two aspects: connectivity and operability. First, they need low-cost, highly reliable and stable connections and technologies; second, they need to provide customized services and services that can meet their needs. Services covering the entire life cycle.
Lenovo meets these needs exactly. Lenovo is the core communications operator in the industry with fully independent IoT capabilities and mature solutions for the Internet of Vehicles. It provides automobile manufacturers with a global one-stop solution for connectivity, cross-region, cross-platform, cross-operator, flexible customization, and coverage of the entire life cycle. services to help the automotive industry open up a new competitive landscape and lead a new track.
It is becoming a trend for technology companies to cross-border car manufacturing
Will Lenovo build cars? Judging from the current situation, it cannot be determined whether Lenovo really intends to enter the field of car manufacturing, but from now on Judging from Baidu’s announcement of building a car and rumors of car building by Xiaomi, Huawei and others, it is becoming an industry trend for technology companies to build cars across borders.
Industry analysts believe that compared with traditional car companies, these technology companies, as new forces in car manufacturing, do have some unique advantages. First of all, whether it’s Tesla, Faraday Future, Baidu and other companies, they all have technological backgrounds. The cars built by these new car-making forces are often good at technology, such as Tesla’s autonomous driving. They Most of them started as technology companies and are ahead of traditional car companies in technological applications such as artificial intelligence.
Secondly, these companies do not have internal competition and do not have too much corporate strategic burden. Compared with traditional car companies, if they establish new energy sub-brands, it will have an impact on the original fuel vehicle market. Internal competition within the company will be more serious, which will also become a concern for traditional car companies.
But more importantly, intelligence and technology will become the main theme of the future of automobiles. Therefore, technology companies creating smarter cars and smarter driving scenarios must be an industry trend. Obviously, technology companies are the vanguard, and smart cars will likely become smart devices comparable to smartphones.
Especially in the era of "new infrastructure" and "dual circulation", intelligent transformation has gradually become the only way for thousands of industries to break through development bottlenecks. The two core technologies of 5G and AIoT The superposition is driving the automotive industry to undergo in-depth transformation towards intelligent network connection.
As a leader and enabler of intelligent transformation, Lenovo has transformed from its own intelligent transformation to driving the intelligent transformation of all walks of life, completing the move from "intelligent manufacturing" to "intelligent driving", and The advantages of the entire industry chain from smart factories to Internet of Vehicles solutions drive new power manufacturers and traditional automobile manufacturers to realize the intelligentization of the entire automobile chain from the production process to terminal use.
An undeniable phenomenon is that although Lenovo has not officially announced the production of cars, its new IT value based on the "end-edge-cloud-network-intelligence" technology architecture is constantly using new technologies such as the Internet of Vehicles. Technology supports automobile manufacturers and the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and is becoming an indispensable member of the new car-making forces.