On November 6, NavInfo held the 2026 EVOLUTION Creative Conference in Shanghai. CEO Cheng Peng comprehensively explained the breakthrough direction of crossing the "extreme", based on data and computing power, answered the industry's focus questions, and officially announced the strategic layout of expanding into the field of mobile intelligence.

In the data war, get the ticket to compliance first

"In the past ten years, China's new energy has won with batteries; in the next ten years, China's automobiles have won with data." Cheng Peng's judgment points directly to the next core battlefield in the industry - data has become the "second battlefield" for automobile intelligence, and the prerequisite for good use of data is compliance.

The regulatory threshold is rising rapidly. In September 2026, two new strong standards for spatiotemporal data security, GB 48319 and GB 48320, were officially released and will be implemented in October 2027. NavInfo participated in the drafting as a participating unit. With the superimposition of 6 basic laws and multi-sector supervision, compliance is no longer optional, but an "entrance ticket" that cannot be avoided by intelligence.

With more than 20 years of deep exploration in the data field, NavInfo has built a complete closed-loop link from data sources to compliance applications, allowing data to flow safely and continue to enter intelligent iterations. At present, a total of 170+ compliance delivery cases have been completed, serving 60+ mainstream car companies and industry customers, covering multiple scenarios such as development and testing, mass production vehicles, and intelligent network connection.

When Chinese cars go overseas, how does the data pass through "digital customs"?

With the rapid expansion of China's automobile export scale, new energy vehicles have become the main force going overseas. With the wave of products overseas, the challenges of technology overseas also arise.

When technology goes overseas, it must pass "digital customs": the triple thresholds of data sovereignty, localization, and security review require market-by-market adaptation of rules. NavInfo's newly launched closed-loop data compliance solution for automobile companies going overseas aims to help automobile companies achieve "data localization and model globalization."

NavInfo has formed one-stop global navigation solutions and overseas lane-level navigation delivery capabilities covering mainstream markets around the world. In this field, the company is actively promoting long-term cooperation with Huawei HMS for Car, and continues to coordinate and steadily advance in business directions such as smart navigation, ecological services, smart voice, and smart connectivity, and jointly help Chinese car companies go global.

SoC and MCU are advancing in both directions, and domestic computing power is expected to break through

Behind data and globalization is the hard support of the computing power base. Jiefa Technology, a subsidiary of NavInfo, builds a domestic computing power base with automotive-grade SoC and MCU.

After ten years of automotive design practice, the product roadmap has become clear: SoC has moved up to AI cockpit and integrated computing, moving towards the global market and more scenarios; MCU has entered high-security domain control and regional control, and continues to develop in multiple scenarios.

The automotive-grade SoC product line has been iterated to the sixth generation, with a cumulative shipment of more than 100 million sets, and 100+ mass-produced models overseas, with an overseas proportion of 50%+. The sixth-generation SoC product AC8035, which integrates high-end AI driving and cabin driving, is planned to be launched in Q1 of 2027. It will focus on strengthening safety and peripheral interfaces, taking into account domestic and overseas market compliance requirements, and targeting the high-performance cabin and driving integration market.

The automotive-grade MCU product line has moved from edge nodes to core applications. The four generations of products have shipped a total of 150 million+ products, supporting 300+ mass-produced pre-installed models, covering 90%+ of domestic mainstream car companies. On this basis, the automotive-grade MCU focuses on 11 functional domains and 67 subdivided application scenarios of the entire vehicle. Through the collaboration of chips, algorithms, software and tools, the chip capabilities are more suitable for scenario applications, helping customers optimize development investment and system costs, and explore MCU products that better suit their electronic and electrical architecture node needs.

The flagship AC7870 is a 6-core R52 ASIL-D high-security MCU with a main frequency of 360MHz and a 28nm process. It is used in core scenarios such as new energy, power domain control, and chassis EPS. In the process of domestic substitution, AC7870 has made up for the shortcomings of domestic high-end domain control MCUs, breaking the long-term monopoly of overseas manufacturers in the ASIL-D high-security domain control market. At present, the chip shipments continue to rise, and many leading customers have entered the design introduction stage.

The automotive-proven SoC capabilities also extend to the intelligence of two-wheelers. At present, related products have been designated by 20 OEM projects and have been mass-produced on Zhangxue motorcycles and other models, continuing to bring incremental markets to NavInfo.

Thousand yuan of travel and parking + cabin driving integration, achieving the ultimate price-performance ratio

With the data and computing power base, intelligent applications can be implemented on a large scale. NavInfo's new strategy is: to expand the popularity of the ultimate cost-effectiveness, platform engineering to support mass production and global adaptation, data closed-loop polishing of safety experience, and AI productization to allow technology to enter real models.

In the field of assisted driving, its one-thousand-yuan parking and parking integrated solution uses 5V3R12U/6V3R12U sensors with the Journey® 6B chip, with a computing power of 18-20TOPS, covering L2 ADAS, APA/RPA parking and C-NCAP/E-NCAP adaptation. The current cumulative mass production has reached 2.7 million sets. NavInfo has built a complete data closed-loop system from vehicle-side data collection to automated verification, and uses real driving continuous feedback to polish the experience.

In the field of smart cockpit, based on the solution of NavInfo's joint-stock company NavInfo, it has shipped more than 4 million units, serving 30+ customers, covering 100+ countries around the world. Cabin-driving integration further pushes the ultimate cost-effectiveness to new heights - the highly integrated design reduces the cost of the entire vehicle by 30%, covering functions such as high-speed NOA, memory parking, and urban NOA, allowing a complete intelligent experience to enter mainstream models.

At the press conference, NavInfo CEO Cheng Peng officially released the AI-native smart cockpit solution for the global market. Subsequently, Su Tan, Microsoft China Vice President and General Manager of the Automotive Division, and Qing Xuehui, Microsoft Chief Partner Officer for Greater China, took the stage to have a conversation with Cheng Peng on the global cooperation of AI cockpits, sharing the collaborative exploration of both parties, and jointly looking forward to the new picture of smart cockpits going overseas.

This cooperation deeply combines NavInfo's accumulation in the fields of artificial intelligence, smart cockpits, high-precision maps and data compliance with Microsoft's capabilities in global cloud infrastructure, multi-language voice, artificial intelligence and ecological partner networks to provide an integrated smart cockpit experience covering multi-language interaction, global navigation, localized compliance and in-vehicle application ecology for Chinese car companies going global. The two parties will work together to promote AI cockpits from China to the world, allowing smart travel services to transcend language and geographical boundaries and integrate into the daily travel of global users.

A new leap from automobile intelligence to mobile intelligence

The most eye-catching action of this conference is that NavInfo officially spills over its automotive intelligence technology and engineering experience into the field of mobile intelligence and proposes a new positioning as "super partner of mobile intelligence". In Cheng Peng's view, the real-world perception, decision-making and mass production experience accumulated in automobile intelligence are the core support of the mobile intelligence industry.

Focusing on this strategy, NavInfo has developed a complete layout from data, compliance to computing power. On the data side, the RND spatiotemporal data set has served 22 body-worn robot manufacturers in the 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, helping the robots complete 21 kilometers of autonomous running; binocular vision fusion sensing terminals, fine motion capture gloves, etc. cover multiple data dimensions from space to fingertips. Compliance and standards are advancing simultaneously - the data compliance system verified in the automotive field has been moved to the intelligent agent scenario; NavInfo has newly appointed the leader of the Data Working Group (WG7) of the Humanoid Robot and Embodied Intelligence Standardization Committee (TC8) of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. In terms of end-side computing power, the SoC and MCU product matrix covers all-level requirements from the "brain" to joint execution. "Data is the common blood of mobile intelligence." Cheng Peng emphasized.

In the arena of intelligent driving, NavInfo has always adhered to its own path: to be the most reliable mass production partner and create synergistic advantages in full-stack capabilities. From maps to automobile intelligence to mobile intelligence, NavInfo is taking data and computing power as its core to expand its development boundaries step by step.

Traveling thousands of miles with wisdom, we share the new path. In the wave of AI-driven industrial transformation, NavInfo is walking with industry partners as a "super partner in the era of mobile intelligence".

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