According to relevant media reports, Hu Chengchen joined NIO in October as the chief expert and assistant vice president in the field of technical planning. This rumor was confirmed on his Zhihu account.

　　Who is Hu Chengchen? Hu Chengchen, graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University with a bachelor's degree in automation in 2003, and graduated with a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 2008, majoring in computer science and technology. He was a professor and dean of the computer department of Xi'an Jiaotong University. In addition, he also worked at Intel China R&D Center in 2006, and briefly joined Microsoft as a visiting researcher in 2012, where he was responsible for the development of automated diagnostic methods for cloud data centers in the StarTrack project.

　　In 2017, Hu Chengchen moved from academia to industry and served as the chief engineer and laboratory director of Xilinx's Asia-Pacific laboratory. He has accumulated rich experience in chip front-end design. From its dynamics, it can be seen that he has paid attention to issues related to autonomous driving many times in the past six months. Now, he has also successfully shifted from the supply chain to the vehicle manufacturer.

　　Picture source: Zhihu screenshot

　　It is expected that after Hu Chengchen joins, the self-research plan of NIO's automotive chip will also speed up the car. Relevant media asked NIO to verify the self-developed chip and personnel changes. NIO said it would not respond to this matter.

　　In fact, NIO’s self-driving chip research and development has already begun. A year ago, there were media reports that the self-research of NIO Auto's self-driving computing chip has been put on the agenda, but the plan is still in the early stage, mainly promoted by NIO Chairman and CEO Li Bin, and Li Bin’s personal intentions have been very clear. , Is thinking about the final organizational structure.

　　According to people familiar with the matter, a few months ago, Li Bin had already started looking for a technical leader with a Silicon Valley background to prepare for his self-developed chip plan. Earlier, there was another wind claiming that Bai Jian, the former general manager of Xiaomi's chip and forward-looking research department, has also joined Wei Lai as the vice president of intelligent hardware.

　　And what NIO wants to do is to build a closed loop of autonomous driving capabilities like Tesla. It is reported that NIO has self-developed planning and control algorithms in the field of autonomous driving. To establish a closed loop of autonomous driving capabilities, it is also necessary to accelerate self-research from the chip and sensing end, break the limitations of software and hardware, and deploy new technologies faster. Function, while being able to make full use of computing power and continue to iterate. This is also something that many car companies want to do but it is difficult to do.

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