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According to the company's intelligence expert "Financial Graffiti", on February 8th, 20021year, Horizon was awarded Great Wall Motor (60 1633. Shh). Horizon official said that the two sides will jointly explore automotive intelligent technology around the direction of advanced assisted driving (ADAS), advanced autonomous driving and intelligent cockpit, develop market-leading smart car products, and accelerate the research and development and mass production of smart cars. The two sides did not announce the amount of financing.

On February 6th, 20021year, two days before this strategic investment, Horizon just announced that it was awarded Yu Shun Optical Technology (Group) Co., Ltd. (2382. HK)。 The two sides did not announce the amount of strategic investment.

In self-driving car products, cars often need lidar or camera to collect road information. Horizon, as a chip manufacturer, does not have a complete camera or lidar manufacturing capability, so Yu Shun Optical's investment in Horizon will strengthen its competitiveness in the field of autonomous driving. So far, Great Wall Motor, Horizon and Yu Shun Optics have formed a complete automatic driving chain from car to chip to radar.

This financing is the third financing of Horizon on 202 1. The first financing was made in 2002 1,1year1October 7, and Horizon received a $400 million C+ round of financing, which was jointly led by Baillie Gifford, Yunfeng Fund, CITIC Industry Fund and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. Other institutions participating in this round of investment include Aspex Sibo Investment, CloudAlpha Tech Fund, He Xuan Capital, Neumann Advisors, Japanese ORIX Group and Shandong Expressway. Horizon said that the company will mainly use funds to accelerate the research and development and commercialization of a new generation of L4/L5 automotive smart chips, and build an open and win-win partner ecosystem.

In addition, at the end of 2020, Horizon completed the C round of financing, with a financing amount of 65.438+0.5 billion yuan, which was jointly led by Wuyuan Capital (formerly Morningside Capital), Levin Venture Capital and Today Capital.

At present, in China, Horizon is the only scientific and technological enterprise with mass production of intelligent chips of vehicle specifications, forming a complete product layout covering the "intelligent driving+intelligent cockpit" chip scheme from L2 to L3. In 20021year, the lack of chips in the automobile industry was aggravated by technological upgrading, and Horizon's deep cultivation of automobile chips gained a lot of social and capital influence.

On February 5th, 2002/kloc-0, the day before Horizon signed a strategic investment agreement with Yu Shun Optical, Horizon announced a patent entitled "Automatic driving state detection method, device, system and electronic equipment", which related to the technical field of vehicles. The patent application was filed on July 30th, 2065438+065438.

This patent covers a lot of contents, such as obtaining the running status of vehicles and detecting the equipment information status of vehicles, which are all necessary technologies for the engineering and commercialization of autonomous driving technology.

Not only that, horizon star product, automobile intelligent chip Journey 3, adopts TSMC 16nm FFC process. This technology is not the highest specification in the world at present, and domestic chip foundry enterprises such as SMIC can also complete the chip production of this technology. This means that there will be no dilemma that design can't flow and flow can't be mass-produced, which is good for enterprises to expand the sales scale of products.

In contrast, although Horizon has few rivals in the domestic field, many overseas chip giants, such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Intel, are entering the automotive chip field. Take Intel as an example. Since Intel acquired Mobileye, the world's top autopilot solution company, Intel has set up a special autopilot alliance to realize the seamless connection between chip companies and car companies, with the ultimate goal of forming complete control over the autopilot industry chain.

In order to meet the challenge, Horizon will soon launch L3/L4 self-driving flagship Journey 5, which is based on the product development process system of ASIL D-class vehicle functional safety (ISO 26262), has 96 TOPS AI computing capability, and supports 16 camera perception computing. From the product point of view, Journey 5 has reached the top level in the industry.

Automobile is the representative of heavy assets and heavy industry, and the industrial chain design is extremely complicated. The establishment of the autonomous driving alliance is tantamount to casting a high wall for the horizon and creating a waterfall effect, thus preventing startups such as Horizon from going deep into the core of the industrial chain. So the best way to break through the horizon is to find more independent brands and seek cooperation.