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NIO is currently conducting independent research and development of chips. Last month, Bai Jian, Vice President of Hardware at NIO, posted on social media: 'In the next one to two years, we will independently research and mass-produce some key chips led by AD chips.' Now, more related leaked information has emerged.

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The first self-developed chip from NIO will be targeted towards intelligent cabin. Informed sources revealed that NIO's first self-developed chip adopts the 7nm process technology and will be manufactured by Samsung, with the research and development team led by a former Huawei HiSilicon executive.

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Compared to the currently popular autonomous driving chips, the competition in the field of intelligent cabin chips is indeed relatively low-key. Many car manufacturers on the market choose Qualcomm's cabin chips, while self-developed cabin chips are expected to make NIO's vehicle connectivity more integrated, coinciding with the upcoming launch of NIO smartphones.

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According to the official data released by NIO, as of the first quarter of 2023, NIO has applied for, published, and authorized over 6,000 patents worldwide. In August, NIO delivered 19,329 vehicles, an increase of 81% year-on-year but a decrease of 5.5% month-on-month.

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It is worth mentioning that the highly anticipated NIO smartphone has recently been approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The model number is N2301, which supports 100W fast charging. The applicant is NIO Mobile Technology Co., Ltd.

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Prior to this, the NIO smartphone has already obtained radio approval from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. This model will support 2G, China Unicom 3G, CDMA, China Mobile + China Unicom 4G, as well as 5G network standards. It also supports UWB ultra-wideband technology. This means that the NIO smartphone is expected to be used as a digital key for NIO cars or form short-range connections with other smart devices.

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NIO founder William Li said that NIO plans to develop a new smartphone every year, just like Apple. He revealed that the NIO phone will be released and delivered in the third quarter of this year, with an expected price range of 5000 to 7000 yuan (＄686-961).

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China’s leading L4 autonomous driving mobility company WeRide announced Thursday it completed the Series B2 and B3 financing, which were both led by commercial vehicle manufacturer Yutong Group, marking that WeRide has raised a total of $310 million in a Series B funding.

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As the auto-driving unicorn’s first funding in 2021, the Series B2 and B3 came shortly after the company completed the Series B1 funding on Dec. 23 last year, which also saw the participation of Yotong Group.

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Other investors include CMC Capital Partners, CDB Equipment Manufacturing Fund, Hengjian Emerging Industries Fund, Zhuhai Huajin Capital and Tryin Capital. Furthermore, Qiming Venture Partners, Sinovation Ventures and Kinzon Capital, all of whom were involved in the previous rounds, also joined.

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\"In the year 2021, more leading investors and partners are joining us, bringing in their strategic resources to fulfill the goal of commercializing self-driving technology,” said Tony Han, Founder and CEO of WeRide.

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Han also said that the company is capturing the momentum in the AI-empowered mobility industry and will further accelerate research and development as well as the commercialization of WeRide’s technologies.

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The company is currently strengthening the stability and safety of its self-driving systems.

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\"\" — *WeRide Robotaxi (Source: WeRide)*

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Established in 2017 in Guangzhou, the company is a pioneer in China's auto-driving industry, a field that has gained growing attention from the capital market.

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Ruigang Li, a founding partner of CMC Capital Partners, remarked that the self-driving technology will be “a game-changer in the smart mobility market” and “one of the popular themes of the equity market.”

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Qiming Venture Partners was the lead investor in WeRide’s Pre-A Round and continued to participate in both the Series A and B funding. “Qiming Venture Partners has always been bullish on the self-driving sector in China and has been fortunate enough to participate in every round of funding for WeRide since its inception,” said Duane Kuang, Founding Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners and WeRide’s Board Member.

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“WeRide is the seventh AI unicorn Sinovation Ventures has invested in. We are looking forward to seeing WeRide accelerate the implementation of more self-driving services, such as Robotaxis and Mini Robobuses”, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Sinovation Ventures Chairman and CEO as well as President of its AI Institute, shared his view on Sinovation Ventures' continuous investment in WeRide.

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This year, WeRide plans to leverage its collaboration with Yutong Group to begin operating its Mini Robobuses. The company is planning to deploy its self-driving fleet to both downtown Guangzhou and other cities to expand its market reach.

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Starting from Jan. 15, WeRide will launch trial operations on the Guangzhou International Bio Island, covering all of its business and commercial districts. Both WeRide Robotaxis and Mini Robobuses service will be available.

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WeRide has also recently kicked off its Series C Round.

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Last week, NIO made various degrees of layoffs and adjustments to departments such as UR Fellow (after-sales customer service), PT Energy Department, NIO House operations, after-sales stores, and terminal sales teams, providing compensation and reassignment plans for the laid-off employees.

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The focus of this layoff plan is not only on the sales team but also targets the internal service sector that has always been highly valued. It involves departments such as UR Fellow, NIO House, after-sales stores, and other after-sales service departments.

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Several informed employees indicated that the layoff percentage should be around 10%, with some regional differences. The total number of employees in the UR Fellow department in Shanghai is about 80 people. In this round of optimization layoffs, 7 to 8 people were let go at a rate of around 10%. In contrast, the layoff rate for the UR Fellow team in Shenzhen reached 50%, with some laid-off employees who have already joined Xiaomi's car user service development since leaving.

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NIO employees stated that the layoff process was very rapid this time. Some employees who accepted n+1 compensation packages completed handovers within just 20 minutes from notification.

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On March 10th, the stock price of Cambricon surged in the afternoon, rising more than 5% at one point. There were market reports that ByteDance placed an order with Cambricon for 40,000 units of the 580 chip at a unit price of 25,000 yuan, totaling a value of 1 billion yuan.

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Reporters reached out to both ByteDance and Cambricon for verification. A representative from ByteDance responded that the news was not true. As of press time, there has been no response from Cambricon.

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Established in 2016, Cambricon focuses on research and technological innovation in artificial intelligence chip products. They provide series of intelligent chip products with unified ecology and platform-based foundational system software emphasizing cloud-edge-end integration and hardware-software collaboration for training inference fusion.

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Cambricon's performance report shows that they achieved operating income of 1.174 billion yuan in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 65.56%. The net profit attributable to shareholders was -443 million yuan, narrowing by 47.76% year-on-year. It is worth noting that as per their financials up to Q3 in fiscal year ending December '24 showed a net loss attributable to shareholders amounting to -724 million yuan; based on this calculation their net profit for Q4 would be around positive figure reaching approximately ¥281 million thus achieving profitability within a single quarter.

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Recently, there have been reports that Xiaomi's robot CyberOne is currently being phased into the Yizhuang production line and plans to announce progress in mass production in March-April, open for visits in April-May, and conduct PR promotion in the second half of the year. In response to this, Xiaomi personnel stated that the aforementioned information is not true.

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CyberOne is Xiaomi's first full-size humanoid bionic robot, officially unveiled in August 2022.

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Xiaomi's full-size humanoid bionic robot CyberOne is 177cm tall and weighs 52kg, with the stage name 'Tie Da'.

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Xiaomi stated that 'Tie Da' incorporates various technologies, capable of perceiving 45 human semantic emotions and distinguishing 85 environmental semantics; equipped with Xiaomi's self-developed full-body control algorithm, it can coordinate movements in 21 joints; equipped with Mi Sense visual spatial system for three-dimensional reconstruction of the real world; features five joint drives throughout the body, with a peak torque of 300Nm. The intelligence and mechanical capabilities of CyberOne are all independently developed by Xiaomi Robot Lab, backed by countless software, hardware, and algorithm development efforts.

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