2024-01-31 20:00:13
The cars will be equipped with a controller developed by the Chinese autonomous driving solution provider iMotion, which chose to integrate the Hailo-8 processor of the Israeli company and the system on a chip of the Japanese chip giant Ransas.
The start-up company Hailo from Tel Aviv, a manufacturer of AI processors for end devices, announced that the Hailo-8 artificial intelligence accelerator it developed will be integrated into the vehicles of a Chinese car manufacturer whose mass production will begin in the second half of 2024. The Chinese autonomous driving solution provider iMotion, whose customers include manufacturers Automotive OEMs such as Geely, Great Wall Motor, Chery, Dongfeng and Polestar have chosen Hailo-8 and R-Car SoC from Japanese chip giant Ransas to power iMotion’s iDC High controller for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving.
The integration of Hailo-8 processors for artificial intelligence in the iMotion controller will allow for the effective and cost-effective integration of mass production vehicles into applications such as Highway Pilot, Navigate on Autopilot, Automated Home Parking and, in the future, applications Like automatic driving in the city (Urban Pilot).
The high-performance iDC High controller enables 3D bird’s eye view (BEV) for advanced automated driving applications and improves safety and comfort through a 10V5R sensor configuration (10 cameras and 5 radars). The low power consumption of the Hailo-8 enables passive cooling of the vehicle’s electronic control unit, lowering the cost of manufacturing materials and simplifying the integration within the vehicle’s systems.
“The combination of our ground-breaking Hailo-8 AI accelerator and Ransas’ R-Car V4H system-on-chip makes the iMotion controller for autonomous driving and ADAS much more economically viable, while enabling best-in-class processing capabilities. This is an important development in the companies’ joint commitment to enable advanced and safe autonomous driving even for vehicles that are not premium vehicles,” said Or Danon, CEO of Hailo. “The merger with iMotion reflects another important milestone in our ambition to make artificial intelligence technology a basic infrastructure in the global automotive industry in the century The 21st – an industry that needs high-performance, reliable and cost-effective AI solutions for automated driving and automated parking.”
“We chose to collaborate with Hailo to achieve high-performance artificial intelligence in advanced driver assistance systems, because the Hailo-8 accelerator enables an advanced level of performance for every driver. The Hailo-8 accelerator is unique in its ability to enable AI acceleration with efficient power consumption, which greatly promotes innovation in the automotive field “, said iMotion CTO Calvin Lu.
Takashi Fusa, vice president of marketing in the high-performance computing division at Ransas, reinforced his words and noted: “The combination of the system on a chip of the Ransas R-Car model with the Hailo-8 accelerator enables unprecedented capabilities such as a 3D bird’s-eye view at an affordable cost for tools A mass-produced vehicle. Together, we are promoting a new era in affordable and high-performance automatic driving that will benefit the Chinese automobile market in particular and the automobile industry in general.”
Hailo was established in February 2017 by graduates of the elite technology unit of the Intelligence Corps. The company became a unicorn in 2022 after the completion of a C fundraising round of 136 million dollars. Hailo currently employs over 250 people in Tel Aviv and abroad, and is recruiting additional employees to support the accelerated growth. Hailo’s processors are the product of a new way of thinking about the usual computing architecture and they allow smart devices to perform sophisticated deep learning tasks such as identifying and segmenting objects in real time, While minimizing the power consumption, size and cost of the chip, the processors are designed to be integrated into many types of smart machines and smart devices in a variety of sectors, including automotive, security, industry 4.0 and retail.
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