Visteon to Cooperate with Tencent on Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Cockpit Solutions for Guangzhou Automobile Group R&D
January 08 2019 - 10:30PM
Visteon to Cooperate with Tencent on Autonomous Driving and
Intelligent Cockpit Solutions for Guangzhou Automobile Group
R&D
Visteon Corporation (Nasdaq: VC), a leading global cockpit
electronics supplier, and China internet technology leader Tencent
announced they will cooperate to develop autonomous driving and
intelligent cockpit solutions, initially for Guangzhou Automobile
Group (GAC) R&D Center in China.
Under the agreement, Visteon’s industry-first SmartCore™ cockpit
domain control platform will incorporate Tencent Automotive
intelligence (TAI) solutions to enable user interaction and control
based on facial expression and voice and gesture recognition –
offering a compelling new digital experience to users.
Visteon, Tencent and GAC R&D will jointly develop, and share
research results for, intelligent technologies for an integrated
cockpit project targeted for commercialization on GAC pure electric
vehicles starting in 2020.
The agreement was announced at CES 2019 in Las Vegas by Sachin
Lawande, president and CEO of Visteon; Zhong Xiangping, vice
president of Tencent; and Wang Qiujing, deputy chief of GAC
executive committee and president of GAC R&D Center.
As a leading technology corporation, Tencent has made
significant achievements in artificial intelligence, cloud and big
data. With a series of well-established service ecosystems, Tencent
has become an industry leader with one of the biggest user bases in
China. Its TAI solution brings together a systematic content
platform, big data, ecological services and AI capabilities –
providing intelligent, scenario-based, personalized social-network
services.
Visteon’s SmartCore™ single-chip multi-core processor will help
vehicle manufacturers transition to the intelligent cockpit.
SmartCore™ independently operates multiple displays and
applications throughout the cockpit, keeping occupants informed and
entertained. As the first Tier 1 supplier to supply a cockpit
domain controller on a production vehicle (in early 2018), Visteon
will provide robust and reliable hardware systems for Tencent TAI
applications.
Visteon’s DriveCore™, a scalable, fail-safe and open platform
for autonomous driving of Level 3 and above, was designed for
automakers and partners. It consists of the hardware, an in-vehicle
middleware for safe communication, and a PC-based software toolset
enabling machine learning algorithms.
"We are pleased to cooperate with Tencent and GAC on autonomous
driving and intelligent cockpits,” Lawande said. “In the China
market, cloud-based intelligent and connected technologies are key
to improving the cockpit experience. Tencent and GAC are ideal
cooperative partners for Visteon in this sector, and in this very
important market, as both have undergone rapid development and are
committed to creativity and quality.”
Xiangping of Tencent said that the intelligent vehicle will be
the next-generation platform for the mobile internet. “Mobility
solutions are being redefined and Tencent smart mobility solutions
have been leading the trend,” he said. “By incorporating content
and service ecosystems with advanced safety features, Tencent aims
to better connect people and services in the age of new mobility.
This strategic cooperation with industry-leading corporations
Visteon and GAC will undoubtedly accelerate the research and
progress for safer, smarter and more efficient mobility
services.”
Qiujing of the GAC R&D Center said that Visteon and Tencent
have been committed to the innovation of automotive intelligent
connectivity technology. This spirit of innovation coincides with
the open innovated concept of the GAC R&D Center. “In the
future, based on GAC’s independent vehicle platform, we will
continue to integrate with Tencent’s mobility ecology, intelligent
driving algorithm technology and Visteon’s hardware platform
technology,” he said. “We are dedicated to more advanced
intelligent connectivity vehicle technology.”
Visteon and the GAC R&D Center have been working under a
strategic cooperation agreement since January 2018, focused on
developing Level 3-plus autonomous driving solutions and cockpit
domain controllers based on the DriveCore™ safety autonomous
driving controller and the SmartCore™ cockpit controller.
The launch of this cooperative effort further demonstrates the
commitment of Visteon to the intelligent connectivity market.
Visteon will continue to create solutions for cockpit digitization,
central computing and autonomous driving.
About Visteon
Visteon is a global technology company that designs, engineers
and manufactures innovative cockpit electronics products and
connected car solutions for most of the world’s major vehicle
manufacturers. Visteon is a leading provider of instrument
clusters, head-up displays, information displays, infotainment,
audio systems, SmartCore™ cockpit domain controllers, vehicle
connectivity and the DriveCore™ autonomous driving platform.
Visteon also supplies embedded multimedia and smartphone
connectivity software solutions to the global automotive industry.
Headquartered in Van Buren Township, Michigan, Visteon has
approximately 10,000 employees at more than 40 facilities in 18
countries. Visteon had sales of $3.15 billion in 2017. Learn more
at www.visteon.com.
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