Chinese auto chip startup Horizon Robotics recently announced that it has joined two major international open-source communities - the ELISA project under Linux and the seL4 Foundation.
Horizon Robotics joined the ELISA project as a Silver member of the Linux Foundation, providing access to the operating system's functional security processes and technical assistance, as well as broader infrastructure and technical support from the Linux foundation community.
The company joined the seL4 Foundation as a premium member and will work with seL4 to build a secure operating system base and participate in community building based on the seL4 ecosystem.
Previously, both Nio and Li Auto have become premium members of the seL4 Foundation.
At the Great Wall Technology Festival held in June, Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, has said that Horizon Robotics wants to be an active participant in China's open ecology of innovation and to join the ecology including HarmonyOS.
He believes that in the era of innovation, car companies and supply chain partners are not just a delivery relationship, but more of a synergistic relationship that requires extensive participation from the entire industry chain.
Horizon Robotics will join hands with automotive industry partners in the future to accelerate the coming of the era of smart cars, he said.
Great Wall Motors announced on Feb. 8 that it completed a strategic investment in Horizon Robotics.
According to the strategic cooperation framework agreement signed by both parties, they will focus on the direction of advanced assisted driving (ADAS), high-level autonomous driving and smart cockpit to jointly explore automotive smart technology.
They will also lay out intelligent technologies such as autonomous driving and smart network connection to accelerate the development and mass production of smart cars.
Horizon Robotics was founded in 2015 with investors including Intel Capital, Hillhouse Capital and Jack Ma's Yunfeng Capital, and partners including Li Auto, BYD, SAIC Motor, and Audi.
Horizon Robotics released the Journey 2 chip in 2019, which is the first local automotive-grade AI chip in China. It consumes 2W of power and is based on BPU2.0 (Brain Processing Unit) architecture, providing over 4 TOPS of computing power to process multiple types of intelligent driving tasks in real-time.
Horizon Robotics plans to launch the Journey 5P in 2022 and the Journey 6 chip in 2023.
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