Huawei is going to form a team of over 5,000 people working in the R&D of intelligent automotive components. It will also ensure an investment of one billion US dollar to support the intricate tasks of establishing the industry foundation.
The company has carved out the details of its visions regarding the investments, employments, research, and development for future-ready automobiles on its two recent events – the 18th Global Analyst Summit and the Auto Shanghai 2021. It has also launched a full set of intelligent vehicle components at the latter event.
At the Annual report disclosure press event in early April, the company announced that to boost business resilience, Huawei would strengthen its software capabilities and invest more in businesses that are less reliant on advanced process techniques, as well as in components for intelligent vehicles. And within the same month these announcements have come.
The products under intelligent automotive solutions are expected to help Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to build better, more advanced tools for the vehicles and enable the automotive industries to upgrade own capabilities to match the current time demands. Huawei considers the innovative automotive components as its long-term strategic opportunity. As its new endeavors see success, Huawei shall continue to channel more investments into this field, especially into the development of autonomous driving software to build an advanced driving system.
Huawei’s new set of intelligent components includes 4D imaging radar, 10L AR HUD, and MDC 810. All of it is designed to help the vehicles sense and project the statuses of its surroundings and measure every nearby object or obstacle for maximum ease of performance. Huawei has officially announced its latest HD map cloud service capability and roadmap at the product launch. Currently, Huawei has obtained grade-A surveying and mapping qualifications to produce electronic navigation maps and developed comprehensive HD map data collection and mapping capabilities.
Building a fully connected and intelligent world has always been an underlying motto of every Huawei mission, as it is reflected in the words of William Wang, President, Intelligent Automotive Solution Business Unit, Huawei at the Huawei Inside (HI) product launch titled “Focused Innovation for Intelligent Vehicles” at the recently held Auto Shanghai 2021, “The Huawei Inside initiative is designed to integrate the company’s technological strengths with the vehicle manufacturing capabilities of automakers to build high-end intelligent vehicles that provide a more enjoyable driving experience. Facing an accelerated transformation of intelligent vehicles, Huawei is committed to lighting up the future of autonomous vehicles through innovation”, he said.
Huawei had initially declared its entry into the automotive industry for developing intelligent vehicles previously at the Auto Shanghai 2019 event.
