On January 12, GigaDevice announced it had signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chery Automobile. The two companies will establish a long-term partnership to coordinate across the full value chain for in-vehicle chips. They will jointly develop next-generation intelligent vehicle system solutions for the AI era, supporting the auto industry's shift toward smarter vehicles.
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GigaDevice, a fabless chipmaker, has built a diversified portfolio and scaled applications across automotive-grade memory and MCUs. To date, its automotive-grade Flash shipments have surpassed 300 million units, used broadly in intelligent cockpits, driver-assistance and other key scenarios. In high-performance MCUs, the GD32A7 series has reached mass production and secured program wins across multiple models. Cumulative shipments of the GD32A automotive-grade MCU family exceed 8 million units.
Under the agreement, the two sides will pool strengths in chips and vehicle development, focusing on automotive-grade semiconductors and co-innovation around next-generation electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures. Leveraging its technology leadership and volume production in memory, microcontrollers (MCUs) and peripheral chips, GigaDevice will provide Chery with high-performance, high-reliability automotive-grade products and solutions. Chery will draw on its platform R&D, systems integration and market insight. It will contribute to top-level design, precise specifications and performance optimization, backed by vehicle-level validation.
The partnership will initially focus on intelligent cockpits and autonomous driving. It will build an end-to-end pathway from chip definition and joint development through automotive-grade validation and scaled production, to accelerate commercialization and deliver benchmark products and solutions with industry competitiveness. Overall, the tie-up marks a key milestone in their push to build a new "chip–vehicle collaboration" model for the sector.
