When we talk about Qualcomm the first thing that comes to mind is undoubtedly the processor of a smartphone. How not to mention the latest release, that is Snapdragon 888 that was it mounted in absolute preview on Xiaomi Mi 11. However, the US brand does not only deal with mobile devices: it also has in its catalog microprocessors for headphones and speakers. But that's not all: it has just announced a partnership with the Chinese company Great Wall Engines, with whom he will collaborate for the producing even smarter cars. Let's go see the details.
Qualcomm joins forces with Great Wall Motors in China to make their vehicles even smarter: the goal is to build a system called Coffee Intelligence
Great Wall Motors is a Chinese company, the largest in the continent when it comes to car manufacturing. Below her are numerous other car brands, Chinese and otherwise. A curiosity: in 2006 the company introduced the shameless copy of the Fiat Panda, called Peri, for which the Turin house has filed a complaint. But beyond these trifles, today's news speaks to us of the union of the forces of two big names in technology.
GWM, reads the official press release, will use the Snapdragon Ride platform of Qualcomm to build a system called Coffee Intelligence and use it in some of its vehicles starting in 2022. With Coffee Intelligence, the vehicles will offer users L2 + and L3 intelligent driving capabilities. Qualcomm claims that GWM vehicles may be upgraded in the future to have sufficient hardware capabilities to provide L4 and L5 functionality. These would allow the vehicle to circulate without any assistance in some areas in the case of L4 and everywhere in the case of L5.
How is this possible?
Snapdragon Ride Platform uses Scalable and modular multi-core CPUs high performance, artificial intelligence (AI) energy efficient, artificial vision engines (CV) and state-of-the-art GPU. Kai Zhang, Head of Intelligent Driving at Great Wall Motor, said:
Thanks to the high computational capabilities and scalability of the Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride Platform, GWM will be able to offer comprehensive multi-segment capabilities in our future vehicles, from driving assistance to high-level autonomous driving. This advanced autonomous driving technology will enable GWM to transform from a car manufacturer to a “global mobility technology company”.
