On the afternoon of July 16, nearly 120 representatives from enterprises, experts and institutions in the automotive industry of China and Germany jointly opened a unique “Cloud Dialogue”. Due to the pandemic, the German Chinese Innovation forum Automotive, co-organized by Jiangning Development Zone Administrative Committee and China Center Bavaria, was held in the form of cross-continental synchronous meetings. The event was held in Jiangning, Nanjing and Ingolstadt, Germany.

With the development of vehicle intelligence and networking, the explosive growth of in-vehicle communication as well as the revolutionary changes in the high-speed communication architecture of the entire vehicle, high-bandwidth Automotive Ethernet has emerged. It can meet the new requirements of automotive electronics, provide a reliable, mature and standardized solution, which also supports higher performance in the future.

From April 19th to 28th 2021, ZD has attended the Shanghai Automobile Industry Exhibition – Auto Shanghai as an exhibitor. Auto Shanghai is one of the most important trade fairs for the automotive industry in Asia. In this year, more than 800 thousand visitors from China and abroad has attended. With a total exhibition area of 360,000 square metres, the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC) Shanghai is home to more than 1,000 exhibitors, including traditional vehicle manufacturers, new car-building forces and suppliers. To fully “embrace change” – the theme of the exhibition, Auto Shanghai provides a special exhibition area named “Future of Mobility – Automotive Technology and Supply Chain” showing the cutting-edge technologies and products in the automotive sector and create a platform for experts to discuss the future trends and innovations.

As one of our most important test benches, we have recently worked on a new generation of the Individual-Line, which is popular with our customers due to its high flexibility and user-friendliness.

In addition to our test benches, we are also constantly working on our general hardware portfolio. Our latest innovation is the ZD-Shifter SU12. Here we explain what a level shifter actually is and how the ZD-Shifter SU12 becomes the ideal interface between datalogger, laptop and test setup or vehicle.