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Today, Xiaomi Leijun announced the recruitment position on its Weibo and set up the "Xiaomi Auto Driverless Division" to recruit talents.

As a member of Inspur Center, since Xiaomi Mobile announced its involvement in the field of intelligent pure electric vehicles at its spring new product launch conference on March 30, the dynamics triggered by Xiaomi Mobile have also been escalating-at first, Xiaomi official website announced several unmanned positions for recruitment; Then came the news that Xiaomi Mobile has successively invested in two driverless technology companies in Shanghai; Xiaomi Leijun also investigated photos of several automobile companies, including SAIC-GM-Wuling New Energy Technology Processing Factory and Great Wall Harvard R&D Center.

From the official announcement to this trip, Xiaomi Leijun's style has always been to dare to fight and fight. The word "urgent" hung in front of Xiaomi's recruitment position in official website especially shows his eagerness to promote new projects. At this moment, Xiaomi Leijun also announced the recruitment position on his Weibo, and set up the "Xiaomi Auto Driverless Division" to recruit talents.

According to online data, the salary of recruitment positions in the driverless industry is very high. In addition to the five-figure monthly salary, some rare positions also give certain company equity rewards, with a maximum total market value of 20 million yuan. However, as soon as this information came out, the staff of Xiaomi's mobile phone department went out to rumor. They all said that the salary is so high, but it is only competitive with ordinary jobs.

"Look at the driverless industry and continue to push.

The recruitment poster released by Xiaomi Leijun shows that the unmanned driving unit of Xiaomi Automobile recruits 500 unmanned technical elites in the first batch, and the overall goal is that L4' s unmanned working ability is leading in the field of self-research. At the same time, Xiaomi official website also upgraded dozens of relevant unmanned recruitment positions again yesterday, involving data center, vehicle interception system architecture, millimeter-wave communication optimization algorithm, front-end service platform product research and development, embedded development, high-precision maps, sensors, ultrasonic radar optimization algorithm, laser point calculation method, back-end product research and development, big data processing/deep neural network entity model upgrade and other industries.

Xiaomi Leijun showed interest in intelligent driving as early as 20 13, and met with Elon Musk twice. Then, Xiaomi Mobile and Shunwei Capital of Xiaomi Leijun started a series of projects related to intelligent driving-they invested in Weilai Automobile, Xpeng Motors, Zhixingzhe Hi-Tech and other companies.

With the automobile industry closely integrated with a series of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet big data, Internet of Things technology, edge computing, 5G and other industries such as urban transportation and urban management law enforcement, the market competition in its field is more intense. In the past, Wen Yuan Zhixing, Ma Xiao Zhixing, Millie Tieyou and other technical professional unmanned technical service providers flourished. Later, Baidu Search, Didi Taxi, Xiaomi Mobile Phone, Huawei Company and other "cross-border marketing contestants" developed rapidly.

The survey shows that in the first half of 20021only, there were 69 investment and financing incidents in the driverless industry, and the total investment and financing announced exceeded 65.2 billion yuan.

As a stumbling block caused by the company's cross-border marketing, the power of driverless technology also means the development prospect of smart lifestyle cars in a certain sense, and of course it is also the main position caused by Xiaomi mobile phone. In addition to recruiting outstanding talents with great fanfare, China news media reported that Xiaomi mobile phone recently recycled the driverless company DeepMotion.

DeepMotion was founded in July, 2065438+2007, and gives an unmanned solution according to visual effects. According to official website, the four founders of DeepMotion, including CEO, CTO, chief scientist and R&D director, all worked in Microsoft Research Institute. In addition, the key elite team of the enterprise is mainly engaged in deep neural network and stereoscopic vision research in Microsoft sub-science research. By 20 18, DeepMotion has had the perfect ability to make high-precision maps of expressway/urban expressways on a large scale, and the automation technology level of complex downtown roads has reached 90%.

In order to help Xiaomi mobile phone basically increase the technology accumulation in the driverless industry and make up for the shortage of leaders in various industries, DeepMotion may integrate more than 20 elite teams into Xiaomi mobile phone, but at this stage they have not responded to this information.

Simple outline of Xiaomi automobile wheel gallery

In fact, internet companies have caused defects. To deal with the complex and sophisticated field of automobile industry, the newly-started Internet tycoon obviously does not have many advantages, and the deep replication of "fate" and "body" undoubtedly aggravates the difficulty coefficient through the cooperation between automobile manufacturers and technology enterprises. Looking back at the advantages of Internet companies, compared with traditional car companies, Xiaomi mobile phone, Baidu search, Didi taxi and other industries have accumulated in AI, integrated ic, data and information applications and many other industries, providing a solid guarantee for their unmanned driving.

The tide caused by this wave seems desperate, but it is also full of unknowns. For many companies, it is a little "crossing the river by feeling the stones" to deal with the huge early capital investment and its unclear business operation mode. As far as Xiaomi mobile phone is concerned, when he announced his involvement in the field of smart electric vehicles, Xiaomi Leijun said frankly: "I want to put my life's reputation on the road and go into battle again to fight for Xiaomi Automobile. Xiaomi Leijun is lonely and brave, and the courage to start a business from scratch is touching, but what can Xiaomi Automobile do beyond the complex? It is better to make a bold assumption, according to the current accumulation of Xiaomi mobile phone, what kind of car can be built?

First of all, judging from the vehicle-level patents that Xiaomi has obtained, the key points are concentrated in three levels: intelligent cockpit, safe driving and hardware configuration. According to the data released by Wisdom Bud, as of June, in 1 26 China/regions, * * retrieved 446 pieces of Xiaomi mobile phones related to unmanned patent applications, focusing on wireless communication technology, autonomous driving, vehicle control, data transmission and communication, vehicle networking platform, gesture operation, etc. At the level of intelligent cockpit, its patents include technologies related to intelligent interaction such as car audio, navigation bar and augmented reality technology.

Secondly, it can be expected that DeepMotion, Mu Zong Technology and Jose Technology mentioned in the previous original text will also become key participants in Xiaomi's automobile architecture. Among them, according to the detailed introduction of DeepMotion official website, there are four key commodities at this stage, including independent parking service, intelligent cognition, high-precision positioning and high-precision maps; Mu Zong Science & Technology is a distributor of software technology and commodities for unmanned and high-safety driver assistance system, and has won the designated contract for L-level mass production of new projects of many domestic automobile enterprises. Jose Technologies is a manufacturer of unmanned millimeter-wave radar. It is understood that the assets invested in this project may be used to manufacture hybrid solid-state lidar detection, product development and vehicle-mounted millimeter-wave radar integrated ic.

In addition, Xiaomi mobile phone also showed the public a vehicle equipped with Xiaomi mobile phone smart home system products. With the support of Tmall Elf, you can easily control the mobile intelligent terminal in the RV by connecting Xiaomi Mijia. With the help of Xiaomi Mijia's green ecology, Xiaomi mobile phone has the ability to integrate multi-modal interactive intelligent cockpit such as video voice and typing, and complete a large number of interactive combinations between passengers in the car, internal and external traffic and travel natural environment.

In a word, Xiaomi car is likely to have unmanned functions such as ACC automatic cruise, automatic lane change _ assist, lane keeping and automatic parking system. And it is likely to be driven to the L-4 level with the support of millimeter-wave radar. After all, this is also the requirement written by Xiaomi Leijun in the poster; At the smart cockpit level, Xiaomi Automobile can transplant its accumulation in the smart home system industry to the cockpit, and cooperate with in-car images, AR/VR and other technologies to complete intelligent interaction in the cockpit.

As we all know, for new energy vehicles, endurance has always been a criticized defect, and it is also the most easily overlooked problem for many cross-border marketing companies. Judging from the patent information and investment information at this stage, Xiaomi mobile phone still has too much technology accumulation in this industry, and it may be expected to fill this shortcoming in accordance with green ecological cooperation.

Write it at the end

According to the data of the joint meeting, it is estimated that the capacity of the driverless market will continue to grow in the next five years, and it is expected to exceed 654.38+000 billion yuan by 2024.

The huge sales market behind driverless driving has also attracted many gamers, but as the founder of Xpeng Motors said, it is more difficult to target basic enterprises now. In this period caused by "all employees", Xiaomi Leijun is willing to "put all his reputation into the game", and the fierce market competition it encounters is obvious. We can only wait and see what Xiaomi car will look like in the end.

References:

1, "The automatic driving of Xiaomi car may be like this", Electric Vehicle Magazine.

2. Xiaomi Auto Forecast: Layout Autopilot, Create Multi-mode Interactive Intelligent Cockpit, a high-tech intelligent car.

3. "Mid-year summary of the autonomous driving industry: making cars into broken roads, big manufacturers have entered the game!" , smart car high-tech

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