The Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Key Points for Automobile Standardization Work in 2025 (hereinafter referred to as the "Key Points") to improve and implement the standard system in key areas such as intelligent connected vehicles and automotive chips.
The key points of the work list 23 items in five aspects around automobile standardization, among which the aspect of "accelerating the formulation and revision of automobile chip standards" has attracted much attention.
The key points of the work require accelerating the formulation of general specifications for automotive chip environment and reliability, information security, consistency testing, and improving the basic evaluation methods for automotive chips.
Promote the release and implementation of standards such as safety chips and power driver chips for electric vehicles, and complete the review and approval of standards for smart cockpit computing chips, satellite positioning chips, infrared thermal imaging chips, chassis control chips, etc.
Accelerate the development of product standards for control chips, sensor chips, communication chips, storage chips, etc. to meet the application needs of automotive chip product selection and matching.
In recent years, my country's automotive chip industry is accelerating the breakthrough of technical barriers and promoting the process of domestic substitution. At the recently held 2025 Shanghai Auto Show, a number of domestic automotive chips made their debut, demonstrating the independent breakthrough of the core technology of smart cars. For example: Horizon released the Journey 6P flagship intelligent driving chip, and Black Sesame Smart launched the Wudang C1296 multi-domain fusion chip. Driven by the wave of new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles, my country's automotive chip industry is ushering in a historic development opportunity. The 2025 automotive standardization work points issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology listed "accelerating the formulation and revision of automotive chip standards" as one of the core tasks. This move not only lays the foundation for the standardized development of the industry, but also marks that my country's automotive chip industry is transforming from "scale expansion" to "quality leap".
The vigorous development of my country's automotive chip industry has undoubtedly injected strong impetus into the era of intelligent connected vehicles. However, the leapfrog development of the industry urgently needs to be based on standardization. In the MIIT's 2025 automotive standardization work points, the requirements for the formulation and revision of standards for automotive chip environmental reliability, information security, functional safety, etc. are like fastening a "seat belt" for the industry to run at high speed. Only by building a standard system covering the entire chain of design, production, testing, and application can we ensure that domestic automotive chips will have a leap in performance while building a solid safety bottom line and achieving healthy and sustainable development.