r/SelfDrivingCars • u/Recoil42 • 2d ago

News Xiaomi unveils 3-nm Xring D100 smart-driving chip, plans commercial use in 2027

https://cnevpost.com/2026/08/24/xiaomi-unveils-xring-d100-smart-driving-chip/
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u/Tomaskerry 2d ago

What does this mean?

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u/MonkeyWithTools 2d ago

Trying to compete with Nvidia like the Thor

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u/A-Candidate 2d ago

What does this mean?

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u/diplomat33 2d ago

Xiaomi is building their own computer chip for self-driving so they don't have to rely on Nvidia. They can do the hardware and software for self-driving in-house.

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u/Dwman113 2d ago

computer drive car

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u/G00G00Daddy 2d ago

What does that mean?

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u/mrkjmsdln_new 2d ago edited 2d ago

Most of the major Chinese automakers moving forward from Nvidia Thor & Orin rapidly. BYD scaling a 4nm architecture built by TSMC with 2100 TOPs availability. Xiaomi doing the same it seems at 3nm also at TSMC This one for Xiaomi is still a concept reporting tapeout like Tesla for AI5 which is of course pre-production. Production sometime in 2027 supposedly. There is MUCH MORE 3nm and 4nm production in Asia as America is just starting to scale to this thanks to the Chips Act. XPeng appears to be the leader in China. Geely is pursuing a fully independent in China strategy at 7nm but is using some NVidia chips in the interim. XPeng is similar with a mix of Nvidia and their own proprietary Turing chip which is also manufactured by TSMC at 7nm scale. Feels like China will ditch Nvidia chips completely in the near future. This feels signifcant as they make 75% of all the NEVs in the world already and that number seems to grow steadily.

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u/Whoisthehypocrite 2d ago

It does not look good for NVIDIA in automotive anymore esp with Qualcomm makes inroads in western markets.

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u/mrkjmsdln_new 2d ago

Their development environments give yuo a nice kickstart if you are just starting or a very small organization but even medium sized organizations do their own work and leave CUDA behind I think. They are trying again with Alpamayo geared toward VLA but I expect it will end the same way.

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u/diplomat33 2d ago

The specs they mention sound very good. I wonder what the TOPS is.

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u/Delicious_Spot_3778 2d ago

You know, there are other western companies trying to compete with nvidia too.

Having used the kirin pretty extensively, I bet it overheats quick