Chinese car manufacturer presents 5nm chip for self-driving cars

The Chinese car manufacturer Nio has developed its own SoC for automated driving. The Shenji NX9031 is built on 5nm, contains more than 50 billion transistors, 32 Arm computing cores, a neural processing unit, a GPU and 8GB Lppdr5x memory.

According to website CnEVPost Nio developed the chip completely itself. The Chinese car manufacturer claims that the chipset is four times as powerful as the Nvidia Drive Orin SoC. That chipset can perform approximately 254 billion operations per second and is currently being used by some other car manufacturers to enable AI functions such as automated driving. In 2021, Nvidia presented the successor to this chip: Drive Atlan. The Nio Shenji NX9031 will be installed for the first time in the ET9, a luxury sedan that will be launched in the first quarter of 2025.

Shenji NX9031 from car manufacturer Nio