Automotive
The chips and sensors behind China’s assisted driving
Domain controllers, TOPS and memory bandwidth, the three hardware tiers, Nvidia versus in-house chips from Horizon, NIO and XPeng, and cheap lidar.
Hardware
Automotive
Driver assistance, autonomous driving and the electronics inside modern cars, with a focus on what is happening in China.
5 articles
Automotive
Robotaxis in China in 2026: Baidu Apollo Go, Pony.ai and WeRide
How big the Chinese robotaxi fleets are, how a driverless taxi differs from a car with NOA, the role of remote assistance,…
Automotive
China’s new rules for assisted and automated driving (GB 47955 and GB 44721)
The 2025 advertising ban, the first Level 3 permits, driver liability, and the two mandatory standards for Level 2 and for Level…
Automotive
From imitation to reinforcement learning: how Chinese driving systems are trained
Why learning by imitation is not enough, what reinforcement learning and world models add, and how XPeng, Li Auto, Momenta, BYD and…
Automotive
Navigate on Autopilot in China: how city NOA became a mass-market feature
What NOA is, how it moved from highways to city streets without HD maps, how many new cars in China now have…