en.Wedoany.com Reported - HYCET Automotive Technology Group, a subsidiary of Great Wall Motor Group, officially signed an agreement on May 18 in the Changshu Economic and Technological Development Zone, planning to invest an additional 1 billion yuan to build an intelligent driving system R&D and manufacturing base. The project will utilize existing high-standard factory buildings to produce high-end automotive electronic products such as intelligent driving domain controllers. After reaching full production capacity, it is expected to generate an additional annual output value of 2 billion yuan. Wang Wei, Deputy Secretary of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Suzhou, met with Zheng Chunlai, Chairman of HYCET Automotive Technology Group, and his delegation, and jointly witnessed the signing.
HYCET Automotive Technology Group is the largest wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Wall Motor Group, with business scope covering multiple fields including intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit, and powertrain. The company's intelligent cockpit project had already settled in the Changshu Economic Development Zone in 2022, with a total investment of 1 billion yuan, mainly producing automotive electronic products such as in-vehicle displays, connected vehicle control units, and car audio amplifiers. This newly invested intelligent driving system project is HYCET Automotive's second billion-level project in Changshu, marking the extension of its business focus from cockpit electronics to core control hardware for intelligent driving.
The intelligent driving domain controller is the core hardware of the intelligent vehicle decision-making chain, responsible for receiving and processing environmental data collected by sensors such as cameras, millimeter-wave radars, and LiDARs. After real-time computation by AI algorithms, it transmits decision commands to the vehicle's execution layer. It is a key computing unit for realizing L2+ and above advanced assisted driving and autonomous driving functions. The Great Wall Guiyuan vehicle platform has established a dual VLA computing domain for intelligent driving and cockpit. The intelligent driving domain uses NVIDIA Thor chips, with computing power exceeding 700 TOPS, equipped with a VLA large model solution, and the overall platform computing power can reach around 1000 TOPS. This Changshu intelligent driving project will directly support this technical route's transition from the vehicle platform to large-scale production.
Great Wall Motor's independent R&D layout in the field of intelligent driving has continued for over seven years, consistently adhering to the parallel advancement of independent R&D and supplier collaboration. She Shidong, Deputy General Manager of Great Wall Motor's Intelligent Products, publicly stated in April this year that the core of intelligent driving R&D is not a single algorithm, but a full-link engineering system covering data annotation, cleaning, training, and model evaluation. Currently, the reuse rate of Great Wall's internal data training link has reached 80% to 90%, adaptable to intelligent driving systems of different levels and computing power configurations. The launch of the Changshu intelligent driving project will integrate the production of domain controllers, this core hardware, into the company's internal manufacturing system, further strengthening the full-link closed loop from algorithms to hardware.
During the meeting, Suzhou Mayor Wang Wei stated that Great Wall Group's development vision is highly compatible with Suzhou's industrial layout, with a solid foundation for cooperation and broad prospects. He expressed hope that HYCET Automotive will introduce more cutting-edge technologies and core processes, driving upstream and downstream partners to cluster for development and collaborative innovation. Zheng Chunlai responded that Suzhou has a solid industrial foundation, complete industrial supporting facilities, and an excellent business environment. HYCET Automotive will accelerate the project construction progress, continuously introduce cutting-edge technical resources, and make every effort to promote the project's early production and early results.
The Changshu Economic Development Zone is an important intelligent automotive parts industry cluster in Jiangsu Province. Multiple major projects have already landed in the zone, including the Nexteer Intelligent Driving Components R&D and Production Base and the Changshu Luxshare Intelligent Module project. Five projects have been selected for the 2026 Jiangsu Province Major Project List, with a total investment of 17 billion yuan, covering fields such as intelligent driving components, intelligent modules, and ultra-high voltage land cables. The signing of the HYCET intelligent driving project will further strengthen Changshu's industrial layout in the field of core electronic hardware for intelligent driving. From the commissioning of the first billion-level project in 2022 to the signing of the second billion-level project in 2026, HYCET Automotive's cumulative investment in Changshu has reached 2 billion yuan, forming a dual-line production capacity covering intelligent cockpit electronics and intelligent driving controllers.
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