Xpeng’s Turing AI chip powers both its cars and robots, says executive

On September 9, 2026, at the 2026 Converged Intelligence Industry Development Conference, Duan Zhifei, senior director of Xpeng’s embedded platform and chief E/E architect, said computing power is a defining feature of Xpeng’s move into the embodied intelligence era. Both Xpeng’s robots and vehicles use the company’s self-developed Turing AI chip, which has an effective computing power of 2,250 TOPS (trillions of operations per second).

Duan said autonomous driving and embodied intelligence both require high-compute, low-power chips for model inference, and automakers’ self-developed automotive-grade chips are now being adopted in both cars and humanoid robots. On September 8, a day before the conference, Xpeng started up an automated production line for its self-developed general-purpose humanoid robots, and the first Xpeng humanoid robot completed assembly and walked off the line on its own.

Speakers at the conference noted that intelligent vehicles, humanoid robots and low-altitude aircraft are moving toward converged development with shared technology foundations and application scenarios, as automakers extend their supply chain capabilities to embodied intelligence products.