Huawei plans to vigorously promote the development of autonomous driving technology and aims to become the domestic industry leader by 2025.

According to foreign media reports, Huawei plans to develop its efforts in the field of autonomous driving and compete with domestic and American competitors in one of the next main battlefields in the technology industry.

Sources revealed that Huawei has set an internal goal to become China's leading autonomous vehicle platform provider by 2025. "Huawei's attitude towards autonomous driving has become very radical. Even though the autonomous vehicle industry is facing the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic this year, Huawei still requires us to prepare for many tests," a Huawei supplier revealed.

As Huawei prepares to develop its efforts in the field of self-driving cars, it comes at a time when the company’s other businesses are under pressure. As the COVID-19 epidemic affects the global supply chain and consumer demand, as Huawei's current core business, the shipment volume of the smartphone department may decline for the first time this year.

Autonomous driving technology, which combines cutting-edge software and hardware with big data and artificial intelligence, is regarded by China and the United States as a key technology for the future because it can be applied in many fields such as smart cities and military locomotives. .

Huawei’s efforts in the field of self-driving cars will lead to more intense competition with Alphabet’s Waymo, Intel’s Mobileye, Tesla, Apple, and Chinese online search giant Baidu. As of now, Huawei has not commented on this report.

Huawei is currently particularly interested in developing autonomous driving platforms. The platform is a key integrated electronic system and the “brains” of autonomous vehicles. U.S. rivals such as Tesla, Waymo, Nvidia, Uber and Apple also aim to have a dominant platform. Last summer, Huawei demonstrated the performance of its self-developed artificial intelligence computer chip, the Ascend 910. The chip can "train" autonomous driving algorithms and promote the development of future connected cars.

“Everything Apple is doing now will be followed by Huawei,” said an autonomous vehicle expert who requested anonymity. The reason for requesting anonymity is that he has received an invitation to join Huawei. "Huawei has been planning autonomous driving for many years. The company is currently actively and wisely tapping talents for research and development."

In May last year, Huawei established a new business unit to focus on smart cars Solution development work. The company has also demonstrated self-driving technology using its own chips and announced partnerships with Audi, Toyota Motor and PSA Peugeot Citro?n to develop connected cars.

Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei posted a message on the Huawei Xinsheng community last year, saying that the company will focus on autonomous driving technology, smart car connections and automotive computing systems, rather than manufacturing its own cars.

Huawei has also been applying for patents on autonomous driving communications and connection standards, so without Huawei, competitors cannot easily enter these areas. Huawei has become one of the major contributors to autonomous driving standards, an element on which autonomous driving technology relies to establish reliable interconnection and communication systems. ?So far, American companies such as Google, Intel, and NVIDIA are still in the lead in all types of autonomous driving technologies. But Huawei has advantages in communication chips and artificial intelligence technology, which are the keys to realizing autonomous driving. In addition, the huge Chinese market and policy support will also promote Huawei to achieve industry leadership in the field of autonomous driving.

This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.