Japanese carmaker Honda wants to double its market share in India and is banking on compact SUVs and sedans – rather than small cars – to build up volumes.
Honda is currently the fourth largest carmaker in India, with a market share of 5.55%, and it is aiming for 10% by tapping the country’s growing appetite for SUVs and mid-size sedans, Economic Times has reported.
Currently, utility vehicles account for 25% of India’s overall market and the compact SUV space within that segment has been growing at over 25-30% over the past few years.
Honda wants to take on Maruti Suzuki’s Vitara Brezza and Hyundai’s Creta. The company’s unexpected success with WRV, a compact utility vehicle built on its hatchback Jazz platform, has prompted the carmaker to look for a dedicated SUV option.
The company feels that other than WRV and Jazz, its mid-size sedans such as Amaze and City will help build volumes, whereas brands such as Civic, Accord and CRV will work on the premium image around the brand.
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Chinese networking giant Huawei has unveiled its Kirin 970 chipset with built-in artificial intelligence (AI), calling it the "future of smartphones".
The chipset has a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU), and was built using a 10nm advanced process with 5.5 billion transistors contained in an area of just one square centimetre.
The Kirin 970 mobile AI computing platform is powered by an 8-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, which Huawei said delivers 25x greater performance and 50x greater efficiency compared to a quad-core Cortex-A73 CPU cluster.
During an image-recognition test for benchmarking purposes, Huawei said the chipset’s performance saw it process 2,000 images per minute.
Huawei has additionally provided the Kirin 970 as an open platform for mobile AI developers and partners. Any security flaws will be quickly found in an open platform.