What signals do Huawei Smart Cars leave the job?

On July 14, it was reported that the Huawei Intelligent Automobile Solutions Division (hereinafter referred to as "BU"), the chief architect of the intelligent driving product department Chen Yilun, resigned. In this regard, Huawei insiders responded to the Securities Daily, "This is normal personnel changes."

Three members run away during the year

According to the data, Chen Yilun joined Huawei in 2018, which can be described as the veteran of the Huawei smart car BU, and is known as the "brain" of autonomous driving technology. During his tenure in Huawei, Chen Yilun was the chief scientist of the autonomous driving department and was responsible for perceiving technology. In 2018, Huawei released a MDC autonomous driving computing platform that supports L4 levels, high -profile cutting into the field of autonomous driving.

Even though Huawei already has L4 -level autonomous driving technology, the new questioning industry M7 cooperated with Cyris also only landed on the L2+level automatic auxiliary driving, and the large -scale commercialization of L4 level has not yet been realized.

Chen Yilun is the core personnel to leave at least the third place from Huawei Smart Motor BU during the year. At the end of January this year, Su Yan, former president of Huawei Intelligent Driver, left; three months later, Cai Jianyong, general manager of Huawei Smart Motors BU Intelligent Motor Control Product Department, was confirmed to "change jobs". In other words, in just half a year, the Huawei Smart Motors BU has left three generals.

In May 2019, Huawei Smart Motors BU was established and belongs to the ICT Management Committee. Ren Zhengfei stated in the organizational change document that Huawei does not build a car to help the car company build a good car. One year later, Huawei issued a smart car solution to provide auto companies with five major systems including smart cockpit and smart driving, and establish a cooperative relationship with multiple car companies.

In the three years when the department was established, the core staff continued to lose. According to public information, Chen Qi, the founder of the former Huawei Autonomous Driving Team and Minister of the Autonomous Driving R & D Department, served as the vice president of the autonomous driving driver of Jiwen; Yuan Xiaoli, the chief functional safety expert of Huawei Smart Automobile BU, joined Weilai Automobile; former Huawei Intelligent Driving Zhang Xiaohong, the director of the product department project, has also served as a senior product manager of Weilai Automobile. In addition, Yuan Hua's chief operating officer Jiang Jun and Yuan Huawei's person in charge of integrating the sensitivity Peng Xueming left the post and went to the unknown.

From the perspective of resumes, most of these senior or core technicians are members of the smart driving product department of Huawei's smart car BU. The department was once regarded by Huawei as the core department in the automotive field, and the number of people was the largest. Earlier, Huawei people revealed that only about 1,000 people in the autonomous driving team in smart cars BUs had an average of about 500 people in each department.

Regarding the departure of core personnel such as Chen Yilun, Lin Xian, deputy secretary -general of the China Communications Industry Association Intelligent Networking Professional Committee, said in an interview with the "Securities Daily" reporter: "Due to laws and regulations, road conditions, data independence, technical restrictions, the actual scene of autonomous driving is currently It is difficult to land quickly. In the short term, advanced autonomous driving technology can only be achieved in the laboratory state, and it is impossible to achieve large -scale mass production and performance in the time being. At the same time, the development of autonomous driving technology requires a lot of financial resources. Obviously, the investment consumption is not willing to see it. Huawei has adjusted the automotive organizational structure and internal resources many times, and concentrated its energy in the field of commercial use. "

"In terms of automotive business, Huawei spent more than one billion US dollars a year, and indirectly invested more than 10,000 people. This is the only business of Huawei's loss." Huawei's terminal BG CEO Yu Chengdong also bluntly recently, cars are definitely a business burning.

"After a moderate contraction of the autonomous driving technology team, Huawei will choose the intelligent cockpit field with relatively easy commercialization and low cost, and transplant the experience on the terminal such as mobile phones to the smart cockpit, so as to gradually integrate into its own research and development technology. Expand the Ecological Alliance. "Lin Shou believes.

The road of "gang" is obstructive?

At present, Huawei's strategy in the field of smart automobiles is to cut in from the parts market and position the "car incremental parts supplier". However, Zhang Xiang, Dean of the New Energy Vehicle Technology Research Institute of Jiangxi New Energy Technology Vocational College of New Energy Technology, told the Securities Daily reporter that "Most of the auto manufacturers have stable parts suppliers, and in the field of lidar and smart cockpit After a group of professional enterprises, Huawei still needs to work hard in technology advancedness and differentiation. "(Securities Daily reporter Jia Li)

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