Chinese Car Giant Taps Israeli AI Chips For Automated Systems

Hailo, an Israeli company making artificial intelligence processors, has been selected by automotive company iMotion, a leading Chinese provider of autonomous driving solutions, to place two of its chips in its systems. 

The Hailo-8 AI accelerator and the Renesas R-Car V4H SoC will power iMotion’s advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD), making applications such as autopilot navigation and automated parking more viable and affordable for mass market vehicles.

A Chinese automaker is expected to begin mass production using the iMotion systems in H2 of 2024.  

“The integration of Hailo’s groundbreaking Hailo-8 AI accelerator and the high-performance Renasas R-Car V4H SoC significantly improves the affordability of iMotion’s AD/ADAS domain controller while enabling best-in-class processing capabilities, an important development in our shared commitment to make advanced automated driving safer and more affordable for all vehicles,” said Hailo  CEO Orr Danon. 

“Partnering with iMotion represents another key milestone in our quest to make our AI technology foundational in the 21st century global automotive industry that needs high performance, cost-effective, robust and scalable AI solutions for automated driving and parking,” he said. 

“We chose to partner with Hailo for high performance AI in ADAS because of the advanced AI capabilities and efficiencies their Hailo-8 AI processor brings to the market for the benefit of all drivers,” said iMotion CTO Calvin Lu.

“The Hailo-8 accelerator is unique in its ability to enable power-efficient AI acceleration of state-of-the-art Neural Networks with low energy consumption that greatly advances automotive innovation.”