Great Wall Motor unveiled the third generation of its in-house developed self-driving computing platform ICU 3.0 during its Technology Festival on June 29, with a single-board computing power of 360TOPS and average power consumption of 5.5TOPS/W.
The platform is currently a production-ready autonomous driving computing platform with the highest computing power in the world, which can be upgraded to 1440TOPS through inter-board cascading to support onboard computing of large AI vision models, the company said.
ICU 3.0 can support up to 6-way Gigabit Ethernet with simultaneous access to HD cameras, millimeter-wave radars, and solid-state LiDARs to meet the current L3 and subsequent L4/L5 and other full-scene autonomous driving functions, the company said.
The release of the third-generation smart driving computing platform will guide the evolution of its autonomous driving technology from the era of perceptual intelligence to the era of cognitive intelligence, said Zhang Kai, head of smart driving at Great Wall Motor.
The first product with the platform's L4-level autonomous driving capability in limited scenarios will be available in 2022, the company said.
Great Wall Motor is also working with Baidu Apollo in autonomous driving, and the WEY Mocha will be equipped with the AVP autonomous parking feature provided by Baidu Apollo later this year.
During the Great Wall Motor technology festival, the company also officially unveiled its 2025 strategy.
By 2025, the company aims to sell 4 million vehicles annually worldwide, 80 percent of which will be new energy vehicles, the company said.
Great Wall Motor hopes to have revenues of more than RMB 600 billion ($92.9 billion) by then and to have invested 100 billion yuan in research and development over the next five years.
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