ECARX Super Brain

High-end digital cockpit computing platform with ADAS features

Makalu is ECARX’s fifth-generation, ultra-high performance digital cockpit computing platform, and its first to use AMD Ryzen V2000 processors. Delivering all the computing power needed for both a step-change in performance, taking the user-experience to a whole new level while enabling a longer life product cycle – up to 5 years – without hardware upgrades, enabling OEMs to future- proof their vehicles’ interior designs and infotainment system functionality.

With up to 32GB of RAM, 8GB of video RAM, a solid-state drive with 1TB of storage, and the Unreal Engine 3D graphics engine developed by world-leading gaming company Epic – delivering rendering capability at 10.1 TOPS – Makalu provides truly extraordinary performance and sets a new benchmark for infotainment, delivering breathtaking, immersive, real-time 3D animations, stunning augmented reality displays and home cinema-like surround sound. Occupants can even play high-end ‘3A’ HD video games, either using the steering wheel buttons or separate controllers.

By integrating the digital cockpit computing platform and the advanced driver assistance system controller into a single, high- performance module based on ECARX’s full-stack hardware and software technologies, ECARX Super Brain delivers L2+ capability and enables 5% less wiring throughout the vehicle, together with cost reductions in R&D and components by up to 15% and 20% respectively.

Robustness is ensured thanks to ISO 26262 ASIL-B functional safety certification.