Decoder with Nilay Patel · Monday, July 13, 2026
Xinju Wu discusses the advantage Chinese automakers had in starting fresh with EV architectures, allowing them to build globally competitive cars without legacy burdens. He also highlights the industry-wide adaptation to single central computer architecture for competitiveness.
“I think that's just one side of it. Definitely have less legacy burden to worry about is an advantage. But what I also see is not only the new OEMs, but the, uh, even the global players there, they have to adapt.”
“And everybody is adapting to a, basically a single central computer kind of architecture because that's how you compete.”