A Strong Start in 2025 | Axera Autonomous Driving Headquarters Establishes in Chongqing's Liangjiang New Area

Release time:2025-01-20

At the beginning of the new year when all things take on a new look, Axera ushers in a brand new chapter since its establishment five years ago, with the official landing of its Autonomous Driving Headquarters in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area. As an innovative pioneer in the intelligent chip industry, Axera has long been deeply engaged in technological R&D, customer-centric, and pragmatic in forging ahead, and has occupied an important market position especially in the field of intelligent driving chips. This landing in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area is another major strategic layout of Axera in the intelligent driving field, which will lead the new trend of future smart mobility and open up a new blueprint for the development of Axera's automotive business.

Photographed by Wang Yantong, Liangjiang Digital Economy Industrial Park

Cover Photo: Longxing Building, Liangjiang New Area, Photographed by Wang Jiaxi

Over the past five years and more, Axera has continuously focused on AI perception and edge computing chips, completed the R&D and mass production of multiple generations of intelligent chip products, and provided extensive services for markets such as in-vehicle computing, intelligent IoT, edge computing and robotics. Especially in the fields of intelligent driving and intelligent IoT, Axera's chip shipment volume has occupied a top market position.

Currently, the rapid development of intelligent connected technology is leading a profound transformation in the automotive industry. As the main position of Chongqing's intelligent connected new energy vehicle industry, Liangjiang New Area is accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the automotive industry and cultivating a new automotive industry ecosystem through innovation chain collaboration and industrial chain agglomeration.

And this is the development opportunity that Axera values.

"Chongqing has abundant automotive industry resources, providing broad market space for the development of Axera's autonomous driving business. At the same time, Axera's autonomous driving chips and solutions will enhance the competitiveness of Chongqing's automakers and component manufacturers," said Dr. Qiu Xiaoxin. "As the second growth curve of Axera, the automotive business is one of the company's key focus areas. Axera will continue to invest heavily to become a leading enterprise in China's automotive-grade chips. Liangjiang New Area is highly aligned with the development direction of Axera's autonomous driving business and is the optimal partner for Axera!"

At present, Axera has carried out in-depth cooperation with many domestic and foreign automakers and system integrators, and plans to mass-produce high-level autonomous driving chips in the next stage. Meanwhile, Axera is also actively exploring cooperation with scientific research institutions and universities in Chongqing, and will drive the development of R&D and industrialization in the semiconductor and algorithm fields in Chongqing through joint laboratories, industry-university-research collaboration, and talent attraction and localization.

Chongqing Liangjiang New Area is China's third and the inland's first national-level development and opening-up new area. On May 5, 2010, the State Council officially approved the establishment of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area. In October 2021, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Planning Outline for the Construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle", proposing to build Liangjiang New Area to a high standard, accelerate the construction of the Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone, give play to the flagship role of Liangjiang New Area, and create an inland opening-up gateway.

Founded in May 2019, Axera is committed to building a world-leading perception and edge computing chip platform, providing extensive services for the huge edge and end-side device markets such as smart cities, intelligent driving, edge computing and robotics. In November 2023, Axera officially launched its automotive brand — Axera Auto, positioned as a Tier 2 supplier, which has currently achieved large-scale mass production and vehicle installation. Axera's two self-developed core technologies — AxeraVision AI-ISP and AxeraNeurons Mixed-Precision NPU — provide a full range of intelligent driving reference solutions for front-view monocular camera systems, park and drive integration domain controllers, CMS, DMS/OMS, etc. At the same time, it has efficient and easy-to-use toolchains and rich software development platforms to meet the diverse needs of customers.