Automotive Domain Control Unit (DCU) Industry Report, 2021
Summary
Domestic companies such as Enjoy Move Technology, Neusoft Reach, Untouch, and Nullmax have also launched domain controller software platforms to seize market opportunities. Freetech, a Chinese ADAS supplier supporting Geely, Changan, Chery and Baoneng, has begun the research and development of domain controllers. Desay SV provides the autonomous driving domain controller IPU03 for Xpeng P7, with the shipments exceeding 10,000 units in 2020 and mass production, IPU04 based on NVIDIA’s ORIN computing platform is also under development and is planned to be launched in Lixiang in large scale in 2022. In the future, the core technologies of the advanced autonomous vehicle era will include computing platforms, operating systems and application software. Megatronix, a software infrastructure provider that only has a history of two years, recently announced that it has raised over USD100 million in financing, and has accepted cockpit platform orders from OEMs such as HYCAN 007 and Lixiang.