Recently, NIO announced a blockbuster news: all 8 models currently on sale under NIO will be replaced from March.
Among them, the 2024 ES8, ES7, EC7, ES6, EC6, ET5, and ET5T have been unlockedMinimum sale** unchanged；In addition, deliveries of the 2024 ES8, EC7, ES6, EC6, and ET5T will begin in March 2024, the 2024 ET5 will begin in April 2024, and the 2024 ES7 will begin in May 2024.
At the same time, the 2024 ET7 will be released in April and the lock order will be opened. NIO did not release more information about the ET7 upgrade, but it is very likely that the ET7 will bring the biggest surprise in this round of upgrades.
In fact, the biggest highlight of this upgrade is that NIO's 8 new 2024 models will be completely new**Computing platform ADAM, and equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon *** cockpit chip (SA8295P), which is currently the most advanced chip in the cockpit.
Weilai has always been very willing to pay for hardware standards, and under the momentum of cost reduction promoted by the industry, Weilai still insists on the standard four-wheel drive + 4 Orin-X+ LiDAR of the whole system, and this Weilai 2024 upgrade, on the basis of the original already far ahead of the hardware, also makes Weilai's software upgrade play a greater value.
First of all, it has to be mentioned that the new ** computing platform ADAM, which not only increases the data transfer rate by 10 times, but also achievesThe industry's first cross-domain computing power sharing.
ADAM real shot Source: NIO's official NIO ** computing platform ADAM's ability to exert its capabilities, first of all, based on the E (electronic and electrical) architecture of NIO's second-generation platform model, transferring the functions of the past in different domains (such as intelligent cabins and intelligent driving) to a centralized computing platform. As a result, the number of controllers is significantly reduced, with a 40% reduction in volume and 20% weight compared to a detachable cabin controller. In addition, the overall e-E architecture is also flatter, and the future OTA will be more flexible.
Through NIO's ** computing platform, ADAM, there is no longer a need for encoding and decoding between different domains in the car, eliminating the need for encoding and decoding chips, power supplies, heat dissipation, wiring harnesses, etc., and directly replacing Gigabit Ethernet through etching circuits on the circuit board, greatly increasing the cross-domain data bandwidth between the intelligent driving and the cockpit from Gigabit to 16Gbps, achieving a transmission rate increase of more than 10 times.
Cross-domain computing power sharing is also the current mainstream concept of cockpit integration. On the one hand, it can realize cross-domain computing power sharing, and maximize the control of intelligent driving, intelligent cabin and whole vehicle256tops computing power；On the other hand, cross-domain computing power sharing can also more reasonably distribute the needs of various large computing powerLet the intelligent driving chip NVIDIA Orin X and the 8295 chip of the intelligent cockpit solve the tasks they are good at, rather than completely limiting themselves to their respective intelligent driving and intelligent cabin fields.
Source: NIO Official NIO's 2024 new car will integrate 1 of the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 8295 intelligent cockpit chips and 4 NVIDIA Orin X intelligent driving chips, this kind of computing power configuration, in 2024, the entire new car market, will be a ceiling-level existence.
Recently, Bai Jian, vice president of Weilai Intelligent Hardware, said that the Orin chip and the cockpit chip have realized the sharing of computing power in the system architecture of the vehicle-mounted heterogeneous computing power cluster, and to a certain extent, this is also the computing power trend of hardware combined with software design and development, as well as multi-domain cooperation. This also shows that the Banyan Banyan system is compatible with 8155 and 8295, and all models of the second generation are updated and iterated synchronously, and there is no difference in planning.
Qualcomm 8295 chip Source: NIO official In other words, the software upgrade capability will provide the same experience as the second-generation model and the 2024 new car, thus making up for some of the hardware differences between the two.
NIO's 2024 new ** computing platform ADAM not only refreshes the strongest brain in the automotive industry, but also brings a large model that innovates for car use through cross-domain computing power sharingnomi gpt
According to the information released by NIO, NOMI GPT will be the industry's first multi-modal perception model deployed purely on the device side, NOMI can recognize thousands of items through the in-car camera, without the need for networking, ultra-fast response, and can also protect privacy data without leaving the car.
Source: NIO's official users will also be more sensitive to communicate with NOMI GPT, and NOMI can identify the user's inner thoughts from the vague semantics, which is worthy of being called the smartest NOMI ever.
With the support of the powerful computing power of the leading computing platform ADAM, it will also bring faster evolution to the NIO intelligent driving system, and the NIO City NOP+ function will also begin to be fully pushed.
According to data released by NIO, as of the end of January, the available mileage of NIO's global navigation assistance has exceeded 1.01 million kilometers, including high-speed, elevated and urban roads across the country, of which more than 650,000 kilometers have been verified for urban roads.
Weilai Intelligent Driving Map Source: Weilai Official In February this year, Weilai opened the first round of 1,000 people to pilot the whole domain to assist NOP+ users. Next, we will continue to open a new round of pilotingIt is planned to realize the opening of the global NOP+ urban regional pilot assistance function to all Banyan intelligent system users in the second quarter, which will also be the largest intelligent driving upgrade push in the country. Among the pilot users in the early stage, the high-speed scenario of global pilot assistance has achieved a single zero takeover of up to 671 kilometers with the blessing of the pilot battery swap.
Recently, a number of new cars have entered the mid-cycle facelift stage. In today's era of smart cars, hardware upgrades have undoubtedly become the focus of new cars, and of course, more importantly, this is also a critical stage to witness the evolution of a car company's self-research capabilities.
In fact, for users, whether it is a first-class 8295 chip is more important, or the leading intelligent cabin experience is more important, or how to maximize the advantages of user experience with the help of software capabilities on the basis of cutting-edge hardware, it is still an important proposition for the long-term development of car companies.
At present, it is generally believed in the industry that neither lidar nor the latest smart chips can represent the positioning of a car in the market, and the real upgrade must be the iteration of software capabilities, and NIO is trying to verify this in the facelift of all models.
Finally, I still emphasize that this upgrade of NIO can also see the general trend of computing power integration. Today's industry's intelligence is no longer a single-point breakthrough - domain control has come to the era of intelligent computing, a brain cluster mobilizes sensors throughout the body, processes data, and forms a combination of self-developed software and hardware capabilities.
In the era of AI, in today's era of large models, whether there is a powerful enough integrated computing platform is also the technical foundation for whether smart cars can create a better product experience.