Vehicle software in the world's fastest-moving regulatory market. Coverage follows mandatory GB national standards and MIIT oversight, domestic compute and cockpit-AI suppliers, and the software programs of Chinese manufacturers and their joint ventures with foreign OEMs.
Nine ministries published the 2026-2030 plan for intelligent connected new energy vehicles, listing operating systems and industrial software among the technologies the country has yet to master.
Shareholders approved ending the project funded by the software house's 2022 share placement and moving the unspent proceeds permanently into working capital.
An automotive group the companies described only as one of the world's largest selected Hirain Technologies' imaging radar, built on Arbe's chipset, for an automated driving program covering several brands in China.
The cockpit software supplier told the Hong Kong exchange that an unnamed Chinese electric two-wheeler maker had designated it for a system that turns the vehicle's outer panels into speakers.
The regulator's notice said an operational deviation or an abnormal download during two 2024 campaigns left the vehicles short of the target software version.
The cockpit-electronics supplier's board waived the share-reduction undertakings blocking the transfer of 28.30 percent of the company to Sichuan Jiuzhou, and called a shareholder meeting for September 21.
The Chinese chip supplier said cumulative volume production of its Journey chips reached 15 million units, and separately that a single air-cooled part now brings urban navigation assistance to combustion cars.
The steering supplier's interim report disclosed two steer-by-wire program launches, one in China that it says is the world's first full system launch certified to the highest automotive safety integrity level.
Chinese outlets reported that the defunct carmaker's remaining entity told owners that paying third parties to crack and reflash their cars' infotainment systems counts as unauthorized modification, with consequences for warranty cover and possible criminal liability.
The Chinese driving-software supplier earned 62 percent of its first-half revenue from engineering contracts and the rest from per-vehicle licence fees, at a gross margin above 73 percent.
Licence and service income again passed chip-and-module revenue as the Chinese driver-assistance supplier sold more algorithms and intellectual property than hardware.
The state-owned carmaker's board put forward Li Zhenyu, who led Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group and now chairs an embodied-AI startup, as a candidate for its next board.
The Chinese software house reported its largest segment shrinking in the first half, while naming Snapdragon Ride Flex as the basis for its next-generation cockpit domain controller.
The carmaker's interim report recorded a 6.5 percent decline in research spending, alongside a described architecture change that consolidates cockpit, driving and electric-drive computing.
The revised Road Traffic Safety Law went out for public comment on August 28 with an official explanation that requires makers and importers of autonomous vehicles to guarantee network and data security, and bars exaggerated claims about self-driving functions.
The automotive silicon vendor reported first-half revenue of 458.5 million yuan and gross margin of 49.5 percent, while spending nearly twice its revenue on research and development.
A Hong Kong filing disclosed that seven investors, including a wholly owned Horizon Robotics subsidiary, will put 240 million yuan into the physical-AI and unmanned logistics venture Minieye set up this year.
SAMR approved a revised mandatory standard on vehicle dimensions that carves out sensing and communication hardware, removing a packaging constraint that has shaped where perception components can sit on a vehicle.
China's securities regulator registered Changan's share placement on Monday, and the prospectus filed the same day itemized a digital-intelligence platform project whose largest cost line is rented computing capacity and labeled driving data.
Keboda disclosed zonal control unit design wins at two Chinese electric-vehicle makers and domain controllers built across several chip platforms, and separately approved 100 million euros of capital for its German and Czech subsidiaries.
Bethel, Tuopu and Huayu each reported brake- or steer-by-wire systems reaching mass production in interim results disclosed on August 28, in a shift Bethel attributed to two national standards that took effect this year.
A joint notice from MIIT and three sister ministries launched a one-year national inspection campaign that makes driver-assistance validation, cybersecurity and update logging conditions of market access.
The Beijing mapping and chip supplier said its automotive data-compliance service line grew to 618 million yuan, about a third of group revenue, while unit prices fell across its other businesses.
A vice minister said the 2026 to 2030 plan will attach a digital identity to each traction battery so that its origin can be traced and its destination checked, alongside new administrative regulations and joint enforcement.
The Ningbo supplier's interim report records wins with European, Japanese and Korean carmakers for assisted driving, cockpit and automated-driving data recorder systems, while revenue fell 7.4 percent.
The carmaker's interim results paired a 53 percent fall in total profit with rising research spending, the rollout of Coffee Pilot 4 and a cockpit operating system it plans to push to more models by over-the-air update.
The Chinese automotive operating-system supplier reported first-half revenue up 30.5 percent and said the vehicle operating system itself now has to run models, schedule agents and govern their permissions.
A vice minister tied recent quality and autonomous-driving incidents to aggressive designs fitted to vehicles without adequate testing, and set out a drafted five-year plan for intelligent connected new-energy vehicles.
A front-view camera module built on Horizon Robotics' Journey 6B took a design win across several models of a mainstream German group's global passenger-car platform, with production from 2027.
A revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law given a first reading on August 25 adds a chapter that shifts enforcement to the manufacturer or importer when a violation happens with the autonomous function switched on.
Xiaomi was reported to have presented Xring D100, its first in-house smart-driving processor, at a chip briefing on August 24, with commercial use set for 2027.
XPeng reported that revenue from services and others rose 93.9 percent to 2.70 billion yuan on technical research and development work for an unnamed car manufacturer, at a gross margin six times that of its own vehicles.
A draft mandatory national standard would require Chinese-market vehicles to use approved cryptography to verify software update packages, boot firmware in stages, and authenticate whoever writes calibration parameters through the diagnostic port.
Geely filed two recalls covering 92,915 cars whose lidar power chip may be damaged, and told the regulator it would find the affected vehicles by reading early diagnostic signals from its cloud platform.
Nine manufacturers filed recalls covering 4,275,743 vehicles over a hard-to-find emergency door release on a single day, and six of them discharged part of the remedy by rewriting window-control software remotely.
China's market regulator published a recall plan under which Tesla will add in-cabin camera monitoring to 2,740,642 domestically built cars whose existing system did not warn drivers who looked away from the road.
Chinese outlets reported that GAC Aion showed a model built on what it calls a chip-level integrated drive-and-control architecture, with driving software it links to WeRide's automated driving stack.
Foryou's controlling shareholder signed an agreement transferring 28.30 percent of the company to Sichuan Jiuzhou, moving the head-up display supplier under a municipal state asset commission.
The Wuhan software house reported automotive-electronics revenue down 12.60 percent and testing revenue down 56.65 percent, and argued that carmakers are passing price competition upstream.
Seres Group's interim report disclosed what it paid Huawei's carved-out automotive unit in six months, in a half-year that turned a 2.94 billion yuan profit into a 1.72 billion yuan loss.
MIIT granted Geespace a two-year commercial trial licence for satellite Internet of Things services on Geely's own constellation, naming intelligent transportation among the target sectors.
The chipmaker disclosed that its entry-level driver-assistance processor has been designed into more than 50 models at over 25 carmakers, with Bosch, Denso and Aumovio building products on it.
The three companies said their combined stack — Momenta's driving software, XHEART's X7 chip and QNX's safety operating system — has passed ISO 26262 ASIL D certification and is intended for vehicles sold under European driver-assistance rules.
Cadillac and Momenta said the new XT5 PHEV would carry the R7 world model, the second vehicle program between the two after a battery-electric SUV.
Horizon Robotics said its partner Pateo had been named platform supplier at an unnamed leading Chinese new energy automaker, in what it called the industry's first high-end AI cockpit award using a fully domestic cabin-drive-integrated chip.
CARIAD said HS8, developed with Horizon Robotics, was the Volkswagen Group's first in-house full-scenario Level 2++ driver assistance system for China, and is planned for seven new energy models this year.
The chipmaker put its 7-nanometer automotive AI accelerator into mass production and began volume supply, pitching it as a card that adds on-vehicle model compute to cars already sold.
The autonomous driving company reported that revenue from the business it defines as driver-assistance research and development services grew almost twenty-seven times year over year, against a 47.3 percent increase in its Level 4 business.
The ministry put the approval draft of a security standard for the car-to-cloud link in vehicle-road cooperative systems out for public comment, at the head of a batch of 50 communications-industry standards.
The carmaker said the first major upgrade of its second-generation vision-language-action model would arrive as version 6.3.0, merging the driving and cockpit models and pushing part of its robotaxi behavior down into production cars.
Avatr's product page presents the five-seat sport utility vehicle as among the first equipped with Huawei's Qiankun ADS 5 on the WEWA 2.0 architecture, including a cruise mode the company said works with no destination set.
The Hong Kong-listed chip designer's first interim results announcement showed smart-vehicle revenue up 252.1 percent and 25 carmaker brands signed, alongside a loss for the period widening to RMB 688.0 million.
Chinese outlets reported that Huawei's HIMA alliance launched the Maextro V800 and V680 on August 5, with a fourfold-redundant driving computer on the larger car, a day after China's Level 3 safety standard was published.
MIIT said on August 4 that GB 44721—2026 had been approved as a mandatory national standard, replacing the recommended version and setting a single safety baseline for conditional and high automation.
A staged update released in China on July 31 installs ByteDance's Doubao as an in-car voice assistant, Tesla's first use of a domestic Chinese language model, according to CnEVPost and Sina Finance.
The chip venture ECARX co-founded with Arm China raised the round as it moves from cockpit processors into single chips that run infotainment and driving workloads together.
The company said its NGP (Next Generation Pilot) system, powered by the VLA 2.0 model it developed in-house, would begin a global rollout in 2027 as cumulative deliveries passed 1.2 million.
GB/T 47439-2026 sets out how workshops should handle high-voltage and hydrogen systems on new-energy vehicles, from risk identification to tool checks.
FAW-Volkswagen began taking blind pre-orders for the ID. AURA T6, a battery-electric SUV on the electronic architecture developed with XPeng, according to CarNewsChina.
Ministry inspectors spent two days at three Anhui automakers, randomly selecting sample vehicles and battery packs on site for national-standard compliance testing tied to production access.
Regulator filings cover 39,552 electric sedans with gear-shift and thermal-management software defects — the fix is a free OTA push beginning August 1.
The Sky Nomad range-extended SUVs run Xiaomi's assisted driving on a 700-TOPS NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor chip rather than in-house silicon, according to Chinese media reports.
After a 9X owner lost vehicle functions for about 30 hours while traveling abroad, Zeekr promised an OTA-delivered switch for its cross-border restriction, off by default.
HarmonyOS Zhixing started pushing the rebuilt Qiankun ADS 5 driving stack to the AITO M5 through M9 range, according to Chinese media reports.
The Coconut+ 3.1.0 update optimizes navigation and parking assist on 2026 Max+ and Ultra+ trims, whose NX9031-and-NWM stack outputs steering and pedal signals directly, according to Chinese media reports.
BYD becomes Xperi's 14th OEM partner, standardizing the third-party media platform across its export markets from late 2026.
XPeng debuted the L03 simultaneously in China and Munich, built around the VLA 2.0 foundation model and headed for 65 markets.
China issued GB 47955-2026, its first mandatory national standard for combined driver-assistance systems, taking effect January 1, 2027.