Hygon Doubles Revenue, but the Door to Automotive-Grade Chips Remains Closed

Last week at NIO's smart cockpit chip selection meeting, a supplier brought over a demo board for Hygon DCUs. The computing power specs were indeed impressive—floating-point performance nearly double our current Orin—but the product manager took one look and asked: "Where's the automotive-grade AEC-Q100 certification? What about functional safety ISO 26262 ASIL-D?" The other party went silent for three seconds, then said, "We mainly target data centers." This scenario perfectly explains Hygon Information's recently released impressive financial report.