Horizon Robotics CEO criticizes inflated computing power claims in chip industry

Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, has criticized the trend of exaggerated computing power claims within the intelligent driving chip industry. He noted that while industry standard practice involves reporting nominal computing power at twice the dense computing power (the method used by NVIDIA), some companies have pushed these claims to six or seven times the dense power under the label of “equivalent computing power.”

To provide clarity for customers, Yu announced that Horizon Robotics will henceforth list two distinct metrics for its products: “NV computing power,” which is dense computing power multiplied by two, and “equivalent computing power,” a term he colloquially referred to as “bragging computing power.” For example, the Horizon Journey 6P features an NV computing power of 560 TOPS and an equivalent computing power of 1960 TOPS.

Yu emphasized that the lack of transparency in how TOPS (Tera Operations Per Second) are reported can mislead consumers into believing higher numbers automatically equate to superior driving intelligence, despite varying statistical methodologies across manufacturers.