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In terms of business, on August 25, Xiaomi Group announced the acquisition of DeepMotion Tech Limited, an autonomous driving company, with a total transaction amount of about 77.37 million US dollars. After the transaction is completed, Shendong Technology will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xiaomi.
According to the information from Tianyan, Shendong Technology focuses on providing algorithms for the perception, positioning, planning and control of advanced driver assistance systems, as well as providing a complete set of software solutions for autonomous driving applications. It is worth noting that the company is also located in Beijing.
In terms of policy, Beijing Intelligent Networked Vehicle Innovation and Development Action Plan (20 19 -2022) clearly points out that in 2022, a complete technical system of intelligent networked vehicles meeting the requirements of advanced autonomous driving (L4 level) will be formed; The scale of intelligent networked automobiles and related industries in the city reached 654.38+000 billion yuan.
Specific to Yizhuang, in March this year, Yizhuang Group clearly put forward the goal of "building a core bearing place for the development of new energy and high-end automobile industry" in the first industrial policy of high-end industrial zone in China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone, and set a minimum financial support policy of 30 million yuan and a maximum of 654.38 billion yuan according to different situations.
Among them, "encourage domestic and foreign new energy smart car manufacturers to settle in the development zone. Leading enterprises can give up to 654.38 billion yuan of innovation fund support to drive the formation of 100 billion industrial clusters; Encourage the research and development of autonomous driving technology to reach L4 level and above, and carry out conditional large-scale production. For enterprises that have completed the transformation of the first batch of results, a certain proportion of financial support will be given according to the transformation effect of the results, up to 30 million yuan. "
All the above policies mentioned L4 intelligent driving, and just at the end of July this year, Lei Jun, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi Group, posted a recruitment poster in Weibo, and said: The first batch of 500 elites of autonomous driving technology were recruited, and the L4 intelligent driving ability leading in the industry was independently developed.
In addition, the "Overall Implementation Plan of Beijing Intelligent Networked Automobile Policy Pioneer Zone" released in April this year shows that the planned area of 225 square kilometers including Yizhuang New Town will be set as the policy pioneer zone.
In terms of personnel training, Tsinghua University, Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology and other universities are all located in Beijing, and the management of many self-driving startups in China comes from these universities.
In terms of geographical location, the map of Gaode shows that the Beijing Yizhuang headquarters of Xiaomi Automobile is only 2.9 kilometers away from the R&D center of Beiqi New Energy Blue Valley; At the same time, Mercedes-mercedes benz R&D Center, Foxconn precision parts and a number of logistics companies are also located in Yizhuang.
If the above news is true, it means that Xiaomi's original departments and surrounding industries may form a certain regional synergy in building cars.
In addition, in July, 2020, the R&D Center project of State Automobile Zhilian, covering an area of 1 mu and 6 1 mu, started in Yizhuang, focusing on the experimental development of independent research and development projects, experimental development of service market research and development, and planning and construction of public testing and certification services.
Xiaomi builds a car: 17 members took a group photo, and 300 people have joined.
On September 1 day, Lei Jun officially announced the "official registration of Xiaomi Automobile" in Weibo, and released a photo of 17 people, which was also regarded as "the core member of Xiaomi Automobile" by many people in the industry.
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In addition, according to Xiaomi's official news, Xiaomi Automobile has received more than 20,000 resumes, but only about 300 people have completed the employment. It is reported that the Xiaomi automobile team is still in the expansion stage, and it is expected that the recruitment of relevant talents will continue until the end of the year.
At present, the layout of Xiaomi Automobile has gradually emerged.
Among them, Xiaomi not only acquired Shendong Technology, an autopilot company, but also invested in Mu Zong Technology, a technology and product supplier of ADS (Autopilot System) and ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System), Wosai Technology, a domestic laser radar startup company, and Shanghai Geometry Partner, which can provide L2-L4 autopilot "integrated sensing+intelligent decision-making" software and hardware integration system for car companies.
In addition, in July this year, Haizhibo Electronics, a supplier of smart travel core components, completed tens of millions of A+ rounds of financing, which was exclusively invested by Shunwei Capital under Lei Jun.
In terms of power batteries, Xiaomi invested in Honeycomb Energy, a research and development manufacturer of power batteries, and Ganfeng lithium battery, an upstream material supplier of power batteries.
On the chip side, in August this year, Juxin Microelectronics, an analog and mixed-signal chip design company, announced the completion of several hundred million yuan of Series C financing, which was jointly led by Xiaomi Changjiang Industry Fund, Huaye Tiancheng and Hengxin Huaye.
In terms of smart parking, in August this year, the smart interoperability (love parking) of enterprises in the field of "city-level smart parking and dynamic and static traffic" announced that it had obtained strategic investment from Xiaomi Group.
The expert further explained: "At present, the gradual maturity of the supply chain of new energy vehicles and the opening of the underlying platform have further reduced the difficulty and cost of building cars. With the trend of defining cars by software becoming more and more clear, the business model of the automobile industry has gradually changed from one-time hardware charging to full-life service of' hardware as a traffic portal and software charging continuously', and the proportion of software in it has further increased. Technology companies whose main business is software, their technological and ecological advantages are the best weapons to cut into the track. "