Chinese carmaker Xpeng says it has developed chips for autonomous driving that are more powerful than Nvidia’s products and it expects Volkswagen and other auto rivals to be customers.
He Xiaopeng, Xpeng’s co-founder and chief executive, said it was working to integrate its self-designed Turing artificial intelligence chip into select car models VW planned to launch in China next year.
“Developing chips is fundamentally a long-term commitment, as Xpeng envisions doing a lot of things across cars, aircraft and robotics. We need a type of chip that can support these platforms and also power our [AI] large language model,” he told the Financial Times in an interview.