Geely-Backed Auto Suppliers Unveil 7nm Smart Drive Chip to Rival Nvidia

What’s new: China’s auto parts supplier Ecarx Holdings Inc. and SiEngine Technology Co. Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled a 7-nanometer smart drive chip with a maximum computing power comparable to Nvidia’s Orin chip that powers self-driving vehicles.

The AD1000 automotive grade 7nm chip boasts 256 TOPS of graphics rendering capability on a single unit and can achieve a maximum computing power of 1,024 TOPS with multi-core integration, the two companies said. TOPS stands for trillion operations per second, a measure of a chip’s maximum achievable throughput.