Horizon Robotics' Yu Kai: Aiming to Surpass Nvidia in China's High-End Autonomous Driving Chip Market Next Year Horizon Robotics founder and CEO Yu Kai laid out a clear objective at the 2026 Yabuli Entrepreneurs Forum Summer Annual Meeting: to surpass Nvidia and seize the top position in China's high-end autonomous driving chip market next year. Just two days before the forum opened, Horizon Robotics announced that its Journey intelligent driving chips had surpassed 15 million units in mass production, with production scale and market share continuing to lead China's domestic intelligent driving chip sector. On September 5, at the opening ceremony of the 22nd Yabuli Forum Summer Annual Meeting held in Chengdu, Yu Kai was invited to serve as a newly appointed board member of the forum. His attitude toward the new role was notably pragmatic: "As a newly appointed board member, I still need to listen to the board and contribute more." When discussing the milestone of Journey chips surpassing 15 million units in mass production, Yu Kai's reaction was unexpectedly understated. He remarked with a smile: "I was happy for about two seconds, then it passed and I turned the page. We're always on the road — if there are 15 million, there will be 20 million." To date, Journey intelligent driving chips have cumulatively empowered 8 million vehicle owners, with partnerships established across more than 40 automotive brands. From Robot Computing to Automotive Chips: The Strategic Path In his speech, Yu Kai reflected on the original intent behind the company's name. He explained that the company was initially named "Horizon Robotics" because he believed that whether it's autonomous vehicles or robots, there should be a unified computing standard, a unified computing chip, and an operating system. "When we started, the robotics industry hadn't yet developed, but automobiles