Dreame plans to develop five chips at one go, directly competing with Qualcomm, Starlink, and NVIDIA.

Author: Qiu Xiaofen

Editor: Su Jianxun

Dreametech is also getting into chip - making.

On March 11th, at the AWE2026 Chip Industry Summit Forum, "Xinji Chuanyue", a chip company incubated by Dreametech, announced five chip directions - Mobile phones, autonomous driving, space computing power boxes, computers, and general robots.

Fu Haiyang, the person - in - charge of "Xinji Chuanyue", told "Intelligent Emergence" that these five chip achievements will not only be used in Dreametech's own business in the future but will also be open to the outside world.

According to the press conference, "Xinji Chuanyue" is developing the core mobile phone processor "Chixiao 01", which focuses on improving graphics performance and supports 120 - frame full - scene ray tracing at 1.5K resolution.

In addition, "Chixiao 01" will also develop its own NPU architecture, and its AI equivalent computing power will reach 200 TOPS. It is worth noting that the latest flagship chip of Qualcomm, the fifth - generation Snapdragon 8 Ultra (Snapdragon 8 Elite), only has an AI computing power of 80 TOPS.

Chixiao 01, photographed by "Intelligent Emergence"

In the field of autonomous driving chips, "Xinji Chuanyue" is also promoting the development of an L4 - level autonomous driving cockpit - driving integrated chip, with the goal of increasing the computing power of a single chip to 2000 TOPS - which is three times the computing power of the current mainstream intelligent driving chips in the industry and is also highly comparable to NVIDIA's flagship chip DRIVE Thor series in the field of autonomous driving.

In addition, according to the introduction, this chip will also integrate Dreametech's technological reserves in vision, lidar, etc., and will be produced using a 2nm chip manufacturing process.

"Xinji Chuanyue" is also simultaneously developing chips for personal computers, with a computing power of up to 1.5 PFLOPS. The feature is that it will be designed based on a unified memory architecture and support multi - device interconnection networking.

In Dreametech's main business, "Xinji Chuanyue" has also made a layout. Its team is developing the "Tianqiong" series of main - control chips for sweeping robots.

According to Fu Haiyang, this is the "most integrated" SOC in the industry, using a heterogeneous computing platform of multi - core CPU, dedicated NPU, and independent MCU. It will be produced using a 22nm process in the future and will be installed in the sweeping robot products released by Dreametech in the second half of the year, aiming to enable the robot to navigate and avoid obstacles accurately in more complex scenarios.

In addition, Dreametech has also set its sights on space.

It is understood that "Xinji Chuanyue" is developing the "Yaotai" series of space computing power boxes, with the goal of achieving the "industry's first" in terms of the reliability, lifespan, performance, and stability of computing power satellites. In the future, a space super - computing power cluster composed of 2 million computing power satellites will be formed - This scale is twice that of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink project.

Although Dreametech did not mention the competing companies targeted behind various parameters at the press conference, Fu Haiyang admitted that the goal of "Xinji Chuanyue" is to "surpass global leading technology companies."

"The times have changed, the track has changed, and the right to define is changing hands. They defined the last decade, and the next decade belongs to those who dare to re - define the world with innovation. Maybe it's us, maybe it's others, but after all, more Chinese chips will become the over - achievers," he said.

However, according to "Intelligent Emergence", although full of ambitions in the chip business, currently, among the five categories, only the chips in the general robot category have entered the stage of tape - out and mass production.

Some insiders also told "Intelligent Emergence" that Fu Haiyang, the person - in - charge of "Xinji Chuanyue", is the 89th employee of Dreametech and has no previous background in the chip industry. Currently, Dreametech's chip team only has a scale of over a hundred people.

Chip - making is a long - cycle, asset - intensive, and extremely cruel business. Dreametech's "Xinji Chuanyue" is targeting directions such as general robot SoCs, mobile phone processors, autonomous driving chips, and space computing power centers, using underlying computing power to support the coordinated development of multiple tracks such as robots, mobile phones, automobiles, and aerospace. At the same time, this also provides key technological support for Dreametech's "human - vehicle - home - space - chip" ecosystem.

For Dreametech, their advantage lies in having a mature downstream general robot terminal and ecosystem, and the main business can provide part of the stable cash flow.

However, it will not be a task that Dreametech alone can complete to catch up with and surpass the current industry giants simultaneously in five different chip fields.

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