Chips
Track chip developments shaping China's auto industry. This tag collects coverage of semiconductors in the automotive world — from in-house chip development and supply deals to compute platforms for smart driving, supply shortages, and the broader push for self-sufficiency. Here's where you'll find how silicon is powering China's increasingly intelligent and electric vehicles.
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Li Auto chip unit said to pursue first funding round at $2.2 billion pre-money valuation
Li Auto plans to raise several billion yuan for its chip business at a pre-money valuation of about 15 billion yuan ($2.22 billion).
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Chinese automotive chipmaker SemiDrive secures fresh funding
SemiDrive's cumulative automotive chip shipments have exceeded 14 million units, with its products reaching more than 90% of Chinese automakers.
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Li Auto reportedly joins Nio and Xpeng in pursuing revenue from technology sales
Li Auto is moving to operate its chip and silicon carbide businesses independently and seek external customers, with some units planning to bring in outside capital.
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Nio's Shenji M97 chip may enter Geely's supply chain, report says
Geely is evaluating the M97 chip, jointly developed by Nio and Axera, for a dual-chip L3 autonomous driving system.
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BYD starts mass production of new 4D radar chip, deepening in-house push
The chip uses BYD's Xuanji A3 smart-driving chip as its computing hub and can support Level 2 through Level 4 driving systems.
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Xiaomi unveils 3-nm Xring D100 smart-driving chip, plans commercial use in 2027
Xiaomi said the Xring D100 is China's first high-computing-power smart-driving chip built on a 3-nm process and can run models with up to 200 billion parameters locally.
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Li Auto's chip ambitions extend from assisted driving to data centers, report says
Li Auto is exploring an in-house cloud inference chip, and the project is still at an early stage.
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Nio moves beyond cash-burning EV label on chip unit's AI push, Morgan Stanley says
Morgan Stanley says GeniTech's debut at WAIC 2026 takes Nio's stock narrative one step further toward a vertically integrated AI chip platform.
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Li Auto sets up chip company, echoing Nio's spin-off playbook
Li Auto's in-house developed Mach M100 chip is already in mass production on the new L9, L8 and L6 models.
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Nio chip unit showcases multiple chips at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai
Shenji displayed several chips including the NX9031X, NX9031U and NX9031C, covering assisted driving, embodied intelligence and agent inference.
