Black Sesame TechnologiesHuashan A100016 nm · 2020
Vehicle computersChina
Black Sesame Technologies · vehicle computer
Huashan A1000
China's first automotive-grade chip for L2/L2+ driver assistance, certified ASIL-B.
- Compute
- 58 TOPSINT8
- Power
- —Not published
- Process
- 16 nmTransistor node
- Made by
- TSMCFoundry
- First year
- 2020
- Price
- —Not published
Robots that use it
No robot in the atlas is publicly named as using this chip yet.
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About Black Sesame Technologies
China · chip designer
Chinese fabless designer of the Huashan (A1000, A2000) driving chips and the Wudang cross-domain chips; it relies entirely on TSMC to make them and showed robot uses at CES 2026.
Closest rivals
Other makers' vehicle computers of similar power from within three years of it. Chips with no published figures are left out.
| Measure | Huashan A1000Black Sesame Technologies | FSD Chip (Hardware 3)Tesla | Journey 5Horizon Robotics | DRIVE AGX XavierNVIDIA | MDC 610Huawei |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 2020 | 2019 | 2021 | 2018 | 2021 |
| Compute | 58 TOPS | 72 TOPS per chip (two neural arrays of 36 TOPS); two chips per computer | 128 TOPS | 30 TOPS INT8 | 200+ TOPS |
| Power | — | up to about 100 W per computer | — | 30 W | — |
| Process | 16 nm | 14 nm | 16 nm | 12 nm | — |
| Foundry | TSMC | Samsung | TSMC | TSMC | — |
| Robots | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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