Media Coverage | MIIVII TECH : Leading the Race in Intelligent Edge Computing

On October 11th, the official media account of Xidong New City Business District in Wuxi published a in-depth report titled "MIIVII TECH: Leading the Race in Intelligent Edge Computing". The report highlighted the establishment of MIIVII TECH's global R&D center in Xidong New City, focusing on the development of high-quality edge intelligence products and solutions, the promotion of the development of the connected car industry cluster, and the better service for global enterprises. The report received widespread praise from netizens. MIIVII TECH's Co-founder and CTO, Jun Su, was interviewed for the report.

The report emphasized the significance of the connected car industry as a new form of industry integrating automotive, electronics, information and communication, and road transportation, which has become an important area of China's new infrastructure. Xidong New City, with its proactive approach, has already made early preparations in the field of connected car industry.

In recent years, Xidong New City has continuously attracted the attention of upstream and downstream enterprises in the connected car industry. In August of this year, MIIVII TECH, a leading domestic edge computing company, relocated its global R&D, sales, and production center to Xidong New City. The presence of this influential new infrastructure company has accelerated the implementation of connected car applications and empowered the intelligent development of the connected car industry.

Seven Years of Entrepreneurship - Carving a Niche with "Cutting-Edge Technology"

MIIVII TECH is a high-tech enterprise specializing in embedded artificial intelligence technology. Dedicated to providing integrated edge computing products and technologies, MIIVII TECH was officially established in Beijing in 2015 by co-founders and CEO Guanwen Yang, CTO Jun Su , and several research and development partners.

Over the course of seven years, they have led MIIVII TECH from a startup team to a high-tech enterprise, consistently focusing on specialization and innovation. Their client base has expanded from China to over 20 countries worldwide, serving thousands of top-tier enterprises both domestically and internationally. They have maintained strong partnerships with prominent companies such as CRRC, FAW, SANY, Longfor, Didi, iFlytek, GHTech, Xijing, Datang Gaohong, Juefei, Keyi, Teslink, Cascos, and Tuojingzhe.

"At that time, the robotics industry was booming, and many people were eager to enter the field and develop robotic products. The prevailing form of robotics technology was primarily a real-time system combined with an Android operating system. The main implementation of artificial intelligence relied on cloud-based AI, where devices would transmit data to the cloud for processing and then receive the results back. However, this remote computing approach introduced issues such as latency, lag, and inadequate privacy protection. It was not the optimal solution for building robotic products. The robotics industry urgently needed a local solution for real-time processing and response to handle large volumes of data. Additionally, there was a lack of an embedded intelligent control platform. MIIVII TECH was established and gradually grew to address these industry needs."

Speaking about the initial motivation for starting the company, CTO Jun Su stated, "MIIVII TECH's research and development efforts are focused on edge computing and embedded artificial intelligence systems. We aim to provide integrated software and hardware products and technologies to the industry, making edge intelligence more robust and efficient. Our research direction is centered around leading the transformation of AI applications from 'humanoid machines' to 'artificial intelligence robots,' enabling AI machines to achieve fully autonomous cognition, decision-making, and execution."

At the same time, MIIVII TECH is also one of the early solution providers to adopt NVIDIA Jetson for edge computing scenarios and is among the first batch of NVIDIA's global recommended strategic partners in China. The company has focused on building four major product series matrices to meet various usage requirements in different scenarios.

CTO Jun Su explained that MIIVII TECH has a deep relationship with NVIDIA, a leading global chip manufacturer. As early as around 2013, they began collaborating with NVIDIA. Leveraging NVIDIA's GPU chip products and their unique algorithms and deep research, they have developed embedded supercomputing platforms called "MIIVII Edge Intelligence Products" for robots, low-speed unmanned vehicles, remote intelligent driving vehicles, and more. MIIVII TECH also provides various visual algorithms and navigation obstacle avoidance algorithms. This has become one of the company's leading advantages, setting them apart from the competition.

MIIVII TECH's growth and ability to provide high-quality services to industrial clients have been driven by their product offerings and R&D technology advantages. Currently, the core team at MIIVII TECH consists of highly educated professionals from renowned institutions such as the University of California, University of Science and Technology of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Renmin University of China. They have assembled a skilled and experienced R&D team.

The effectiveness of being a "technology-driven company" is evident. As of now, MIIVII TECH holds over 40 independent intellectual property rights and has developed more than 10 standard products. These products have been widely applied in fields such as remote driving, vehicle-road coordination, industrial vision, intelligent security, retail stores, and smart agricultural machinery. The company has also secured significant investments totaling hundreds of millions of yuan from funds such as Yunfeng Angel Fund, Boyuan Jiaming, and BAIC Capital, among others. The annual shipment volume of individual products has exceeded a thousand units.

Continuous Innovation - Empowering Industry Application Scenarios

MIIVII TECH, as a national high-tech enterprise, has always adhered to the development direction of "specialization, expertise, and innovation." They have independently developed intelligent edge computing products and patented technologies, tailoring different landing solutions for their customers.

The company has gradually met the demand for upgrading edge computing power in various fields such as logistics transportation, traffic management, vehicle-road coordination, low-speed autonomous driving, assisted driving, video analysis, industrial vision, intelligent retail, smart ports, smart mines, smart agricultural machinery, and smart healthcare. This has lowered the R&D threshold for edge intelligence and accelerated the industrialization process of intelligent applications in various fields.

Intelligent connectivity is an inevitable trend in the future development of smart transportation. Embedded artificial intelligence has rapidly penetrated and applied in areas such as autonomous driving and remote intelligent driving. MIIVII TECH has actively participated in the expansion of autonomous driving and intelligent transportation, taking the opportunity of "vehicle-road coordination."

In August of this year, MIIVII TECH's global R&D center, sales center, and production center settled in Xidong New Town, Xishan District, Wuxi City. They have been deeply involved in the construction of the Xishan District's pilot zone for vehicle networking, deploying over a hundred roadside devices to provide computing power support for building holographic perception capabilities on the roadside. Through V2X technology and real-time communication with vehicles, they have enhanced intelligent navigation, made unmanned driving safer, and improved regional traffic flow.

"We can see that after several years of development, the vehicle networking industry has become an important part and distinctive symbol of the new economic development in Xidong New Town's business district, and it is growing into a 'new landmark' with regional influence and visibility. This aligns with the development of MIIVII TECH in the field of intelligent vehicle networking," said CTO Jun Su.

MIIVII TECH has a comprehensive product system and scene solutions that integrate software and hardware. In the field of low-speed autonomous driving applications, their recently launched MIIVII APEX AD10 is an embedded AI computer that provides artificial intelligence computing power to various terminal devices, effectively reducing the barriers to implementing AI products.

MIIVII APEX AD10 meets industrial-grade standards such as vibration resistance and waterproofing while providing up to 200/275 Tops of computing power, meeting the visual computing needs of low-speed autonomous driving and other scenarios.

Furthermore, MIIVII APEX AD10 offers efficient multi-sensor clock synchronization functions such as PPS synchronization, Sync Out synchronization, and Sync In synchronization, supporting asynchronous triggering. This allows for more efficient, precise, and agile support in areas such as railway collision avoidance systems, closed-road autonomous driving, open-road assisted driving, intelligent sanitation vehicles, and autonomous driving algorithm research.

Rooted in Xidong New Town, leveraging the power of Dongfeng, it is the time to set sail

Xidong New Town is the comprehensive application demonstration area, system integration highland, and core industrial cluster of vehicle networking that faces the whole country. It has attracted MIIVII TECH to settle here, refine high-quality industrial solutions, promote the development of the Wuxi vehicle networking industry cluster, and better serve global industrial enterprises," said CTO Jun Su, expressing the firm and clear development goals of MIIVII TECH.

In the future, MIIVII TECH will rely on the advantages of being in the core area of the national Jiangsu (Wuxi) vehicle networking and dual-intelligence pilot zone. They will collaborate with partners in the industry chain to concentrate on creating premium solutions and innovative platforms, contributing MIIVII's wisdom to global smart driving and intelligent transportation scenarios.

"We have many core technological advantages, such as high-precision time synchronization solutions based on edge integration. However, we believe that MIIVII TECH's core advantage is not only technological but also the customer-centric product culture and the culture of continuous innovation and engineering excellence. It is the combination of these two cultures that can lead the team to create the future," CTO Jun Su concluded at the end of the interview.

This corporate culture has permeated all aspects of the company and has become the core competitive advantage, namely cultural superiority, greatly promoting the company's development and gaining high recognition from partners.

The construction of vehicle-road coordination and the development of the vehicle networking industry are essential cornerstones of future smart transportation. With the momentum of the Wuxi Vehicle Networking Town, Xidong New Town provides first-class professional parks for vehicle networking enterprises, creating advantageous industrial clusters. In the future, it is expected that more companies like MIIVII TECH will join forces in Xidong to jointly build an innovative and development-oriented industrial ecosystem and share the beauty of a smart vehicle networking life.