Horizon Robotics passed 15 million driver-assistance chips, 5 million in a year

Horizon Robotics announced on September 3 that volume production of its Journey driver-assistance chips had passed 15 million units. The company said the first ten million took five years from the start of factory-fitted production in 2020, while the step from ten million to fifteen million took twelve months, an annual growth rate it put at 39 percent.

Horizon said the chips were in vehicles owned by 8 million drivers, that it worked with more than 40 brands, and that all ten of China’s largest automakers were among them. It reported 500 production-model design wins, close to 130 of them in mid- and high-tier assisted driving, and more than 20 million units of committed volume not yet delivered. More than 60 of its design wins were for export models.

The company attributed its market-share figures to a blue book published by a Xinhua economic information service, which put its first-half share of driver-assistance chips at 31.94 percent against NVIDIA’s 29.38 percent.

A second release the same day covered the Journey 6M, a 128-TOPS part. Horizon said that as of the end of August it was in more than 70 production models across more than 20 automakers, and that a system built on one 6M supports air cooling. Combustion cars have limited supply power and a harsh engine-bay thermal environment, the company said, and existing urban systems were designed for electric vehicles.