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Nvidia teams up with VW and Uber

by on08 January 2018


Wow that is a serious popularly contest

GPU maker Nvidia has decided it needs more friends in the car industry and is teaming up with the super popular VW and Uber.

For those who came in late, VW was Hitler's favourite car company which got into hot water when it was discovered to be lying to various authorities over diesel emissions in its cars. Uber is  still reeling from the side effects of intense sexual harassment investigations, sketchy global business practices, unhappy drivers, discrimination within the company ranks, and sexist behavior within its board. 

Nvidia already has partnerships in the industry with companies such as carmaker Tesla and China’s Baidu, makes computer graphics chips and has been expanding into technology for self-driving cars.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told the assembled throngs at the CES technology conference in Las Vegas that Uber’s self-driving car fleet was using its technology to help its autonomous cars perceive the world and make split-second decisions.

Uber has been using Nvidia’s GPU computing technology since its first test fleet of Volvo SC90 SUVs were deployed in 2016 in Pittsburgh and Phoenix.

Uber’s autonomous driving program has been shaken this year by a lawsuit filed in San Francisco by rival Waymo alleging trade secret theft.

Nvidia said development of the Uber self-driving program had, nevertheless, gained steam with one million autonomous miles being driven in just the past 100 days.

With Volkswagen, Nvidia said it was infusing its artificial intelligence technology into the German automakers’ future lineup, using its new Drive IX platform. The technology will enable so-called “intelligent co-pilot” capabilities based on processing sensor data inside and outside the car.

So far, 320 companies involved in self-driving cars - whether software developers, automakers and their suppliers, sensor and mapping companies - are using Nvidia Drive, formerly branded as the Drive PX2, the company said.

Huang added that Baidu and German auto supplier ZF Friedrichshafen had selected Nvidia Drive for their AV computing platform development in China.

Nvidia added that its first Xavier processors would be delivered to customers this quarter. The system on a chip delivers 30 trillion operations per second using 30 watts of power.

Nvidia will collaborate with Silicon Valley startup Aurora - co-founded by the former head of Google’s autonomous program, Chris Urmson - to build a new self-driving hardware platform using the Xavier processor, Huang said.

 

Last modified on 08 January 2018
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