Nio sub-brand Onvo said its upcoming updated L90 electric sport utility vehicle will use the automaker’s in-house developed Shenji NX9031 autonomous driving chip, extending Nio’s proprietary semiconductor technology to its sub-brands.
The 2026 Onvo L90 is scheduled to officially launch at the brand’s event on April 21, Onvo said in a post on WeChat on Saturday.
The move marks a further step in Nio’s transition away from chips supplied by Nvidia, after the company adopted the Shenji NX9031 across all models under its main Nio brand.
Onvo said the Shenji NX9031 is built on a 5-nanometer automotive-grade process and was designed entirely in-house, including both hardware and underlying software.
The company said the chip contains more than 50 billion transistors and offers 546 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
According to Onvo, the chip has already been deployed in vehicles serving more than 200,000 users.
The updated L90 will also debut Nio World Model, or NWM, the company’s latest autonomous driving software architecture.
Onvo said the system is designed to improve driving, parking and active safety functions through a generative driving model combined with closed-loop reinforcement learning.
The 2026 L90 will additionally introduce a flagship autonomous driving variant equipped with LiDAR, to be sold alongside the current pure-vision assisted driving version.
The current L90 is priced between 265,800 yuan ($38,930) and 299,800 yuan.
Eric Yu, Onvo’s head of product, previously said the updated L90’s cost has risen by about 10,000 yuan due to higher prices for components including high-performance memory.