XPeng Motors’ Vice President of Autonomous Driving, Wu Xinzhou, May Join NVIDIA

Recently, there have been experiences within the business that Wu Xinzhou, the Vice President of Autonomous Driving at XPeng Motors, will resign and be part of NVIDIA. Wu Xinzhou is a outstanding determine within the clever driving business and is taken into account to be a key participant in XPeng Motors’ good driving know-how. Meanwhile, NVIDIA is a chip big with a market worth of trillions of {dollars}. This personnel change has despatched shockwaves all through the clever driving neighborhood.

Currently, Wu Xinzhou remains to be in his place, in line with a supply from XPeng Motors. They mentioned, “Wu Xinzhou was still attending internal meetings this morning.” However, plainly his departure has been confirmed just lately. There are even insiders from NVIDIA who revealed, “He may join us as early as one or two months from now. This is already a semi-public secret within the industry.”

Several members of XPeng Motors’ autonomous driving enterprise unit have additionally indicated that Wu’s departure is kind of clear. Meanwhile, He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of XPeng Motors, intends to seek for an appropriate successor and has even reached out to some co-founders of outstanding autonomous driving firms.

Due to their cooperative relationship, Wu Xinzhou has had many interactions with Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA. According to North American workers, Wu Xinzhou typically discloses some assembly contents with Jensen Huang throughout inner conferences. There are rumors that after becoming a member of NVIDIA, Wu Xinzhou will function the worldwide vice chairman and report back to Jensen Huang.

Regarding this information, an NVIDIA insider analyzed that if Wu takes on the function of international vice chairman, his place inside NVIDIA is just not thought-about excessive sufficient to report on to Jensen Huang, there’s nonetheless a senior vice chairman named Dwight above him.

Wu Xinzhou is the important thing determine behind XPeng Motors’ “smart driving” label. He graduated with a bachelor’s diploma from Tsinghua University and later obtained grasp’s and doctoral levels from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign within the United States. Wu Xinzhou has labored for greater than ten years at chip firm Qualcomm, main autonomous driving options. Since becoming a member of XPeng Motors in March 2019, Wu Xinzhou has been totally chargeable for guiding XPeng‘s autonomous driving know-how improvement and implementation, establishing the core staff and framework for clever driving.

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During his tenure, Wu Xinzhou totally utilized his collected engineering capabilities. He not solely led the staff to launch the high-speed NGP characteristic primarily based on the 30 TOPS computing energy platform of NVIDIA Xavier chip but in addition fully revamped XPeng Motors’ notion algorithm module in 2021. He launched new notion applied sciences reminiscent of transformer+BEV and comprehensively studied Tesla’s technical path.

But all alongside, XPeng Motors’ autonomous driving staff has confronted a heavy burden. In order to realize fast implementation, XPeng used an earlier technology of NVIDIA Xavier chips greater than its rivals. This has resulted in inconsistencies within the autonomous driving {hardware} throughout a number of fashions reminiscent of G3, P5, P7, and G9 from XPeng Motors, posing challenges for future characteristic updates and data-driven developments.

XPeng clever driving is going through important competitors strain. This 12 months, firms reminiscent of Huawei and Li Auto have introduced their fast progress within the city NOA subject, with the quantity of cities the place they’ve applied NOA reaching 45 and 100 respectively. XPeng‘s objective, then again, is to open up 50 cities this 12 months.

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