PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Hesai Technology (NASDAQ: HSAI; HKEX: 2525), a global leader in lidar solutions, today announced the production of its 1,000,000th lidar unit in 2025, making it the first lidar company worldwide to exceed one million units in annual production. This achievement underscores Hesai's capability to deliver large-scale, high-quality lidar at unprecedented speed.
This milestone also marks Hesai's achievement of its first corporate vision since founding: "By 2025, enable 1% of vehicles worldwide with 3D perception*."
"The 2025 vision we had set is now within reach, and it is a proud moment for us," said Hesai's Co-Founder and CEO, David Li. "The AI era empowers us to dream big and provides the foundation to realize those dreams. We will continue to make lidar the 'eye' of intelligent vehicles and robots, advancing toward our goal of elevating human lives."
Hesai's success is built on its industry-leading manufacturing system and in-house R&D capabilities, enabling rapid product iteration, strict quality control, and highly scalable production. Its fully automated production lines—capable of producing one lidar every 20 seconds—leverage advanced manufacturing technologies to ensure speed and consistency at scale.
Hesai's proprietary Smart Cloud MES system enables full-chain traceability, real-time quality management, and micro-level line control, preventing defective products from leaving the factory. Hesai is also the only company in the industry to independently develop all seven key lidar components. Its product portfolio—including the AT, ET, FT, XT, OT and JT series—has secured numerous global mass-production contracts.
With explosive demand in ADAS and robotics applications, Hesai currently holds three No. 1 positions in the automotive lidar market worldwide: No. 1 in overall automotive lidar market share, No. 1 in ADAS lidar market share, and No. 1 in Level 4 autonomous driving lidar market share.
In ADAS, Hesai lidar has become a standard safety feature, with over 120 vehicle models across 24 OEMs scheduled for production between 2025 and 2027. Key partners include a top European OEM, a leading global automaker in NEV sales, Li Auto, Xiaomi, Changan, Geely, Great Wall Motor, Chery, Zeekr, Leapmotor, SAIC Audi, SAIC-GM, a Toyota joint venture, among other top automakers.
In robotics, Hesai supplies nine of the world's top ten robotaxi service providers, including Motional, Baidu, Didi, Pony.ai, WeRide, and other leading autonomous driving companies. Hesai's JT series lidar achieved cumulative deliveries of over 100,000 units within five months of product launch, setting an industry record.
As of Q2 2025, Hesai has delivered over 1.37 million lidar units cumulatively across ADAS and robotics markets. The company's planned production capacity for 2025 is 2 million units, with annual deliveries projected between 1.2 and 1.5 million units.
*According to S&P Global Mobility's early 2025 forecast, global new car sales in 2025 are expected to reach 89.6 million units, with production totaling 88.7 million units. Source
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Hesai Becomes the World's First Lidar Company to Produce 1 Million Units in 2025
SHANGHAI, Jan. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- USI announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Universal Optoeletronics Co., Ltd., completed the acquisition of a controlling stake in EugenLight Technologies.
USI is actively expanding its presence in the optical communications field by collaborating with upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain to establish comprehensive capabilities from design to mass-production. The company aims to secure a position at the core of the global optical interconnect ecosystem, leveraging synergies with its parent company ASE Holdings to jointly build a leading advantage in the optoelectronic packaging and testing sector, which will enable USI to capture new opportunities in rack-level system integration for data centers.
EugenLight Technologies, founded in October 2016, is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research, development, manufacturing, and sales of high-data rate optoelectronic components and optical engines. Drawing upon its leading technological capabilities and product reliability, the company has become a strategic partner to several top-tier optical transceiver vendors, with its flagship products in the core supply chain of global optical communication industry.
EugenLight is among the pioneers in developing silicon photonics integration technology. In recent years, the demand for high-density, low-power optical interconnects in AI data centers has accelerated the evolution of silicon photonics interconnect technology, driving strong demand from major new customers. The company's optoelectronic integration technology is also applicable in emerging areas such as space optical communications, LiDAR, and photonic computing, implicating significant potential for business expansion.
Upon closing of the transaction, EugenLight's management team will remain in place, ensuring continuity and to strengthen its relationships with existing clients, suppliers, and partners, while tapping into new markets and expanding client base. This transaction will broaden USI's optical communications product offerings and enhance its capabilities matrix to better serve top-tier clients. Harnessing USI's industry chain and client resources, EugenLight is poised to accelerate its growth.
Dr. Simon Xu, chairman of EugenLight, said, "Since the creation of EugenLight almost a decade ago, we have stayed committed to developing optoelectronic integration technologies and products. Today, as the tide of generative AI presents magnificent opportunities for optical interconnects, we are determined to become part of USI, aiming to be empowered by USI's global platform, expanding global manufacturing capacity and client base, strengthening the supply chain, and thereby accelerating the success of EugenLight. Our focus persists in advanced optical interconnect technologies and products including NPO and CPO. We anticipate our integration into USI's global service and quality systems, in pursuit of becoming the most trusted technology partner for global clients."
Jeffrey Chen, Chairman of USI, stated, "USI's innovative businesses in the data center sector cover three major areas: computing/accelerator boards, optical interconnects, and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power supply. By continuously driving industry resource integration, USI has established itself as a leader through technological evolution. EugenLight Technologies' integration into USI marks a significant milestone in the development of USI's optical interconnect business. With strong technical expertise and an excellent reputation among clients, EugenLight will play a key role for USI's growth in this field. USI will fully support EugenLight in scaling up and becoming a global brand in optical interconnect and optoelectronic applications."
Looking ahead, USI will capitalize on its advantages as a listed company and continue investing in and consolidating the optical interconnect industry, aiming to be established as a key member and trusted partner within the global optical interconnect ecosystem.
About USI (601231.SH)
USI, Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., is a global leader in electronic design and manufacturing as well as a leader in the field of SiP (System-in-Package) technology. USI has 30 production and service locations across four continents of Asia, Europe, Americas, and Africa, and offers customer diversified electronic products with D(MS)2 product services: Design, Manufacturing, Miniaturization, Industrial software and hardware Solutions, and material procurement, logistics and maintenance Services. USI is a subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding Co., Ltd. (TWSE: 3711, NYSE: ASX). To learn more, please visit www.usiglobal.com or engage with us on LinkedIn and YouTube.
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USI Subsidiary Universal Optoelectronics Acquires Controlling Stake in Eugenlight Technologies, Advancing Optical Interconnect Industry Integration
