NVIDIA unveils chips for fully autonomous vehicles
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SILICON Valley graphics chipmaker NVIDIA unveiled yesterday the first computer chips for developing fully autonomous vehicles and said it had more than 25 customers working to build a new class of driverless cars, robotaxis and long-haul trucks.
Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world’s largest mail and logistics company, and ZF, a top automotive parts supplier, plan to deploy a fleet of autonomous delivery trucks based on the new chips, starting in 2019, NVIDIA said.
The third generation of NVIDIA’s Drive PX automotive line, code-named Pegasus, are chips the size of car license plates with datacenter-class processing power.
They can handle 320 trillion operations per second, representing roughly a 13-fold increase over the calculating power of the current PX 2 class.
This dramatic improvement is a pre-condition for developing and testing future autonomous cars, experts said.
“NVIDIA is one step ahead. But you can be sure you can expect (rival chipmakers) Intel, NXP and Bosch not to be too far behind,” said Luca De Ambroggi, principal automotive electronics analyst with industry market research firm IHS Markit.
Computer chip giant Intel and its Mobileye automotive unit are working with German carmaker BMW and US auto supplier Delphi on their own autonomous driving platform due out in 2021. NXP has agreed to be acquired by Qualcomm to form the world’s largest auto electronics supplier, while Bosch, the industry’s top auto supplier, is working with carmaker Daimler
NVIDIA’s automotive director Danny Shapiro said in an interview that many of the first 25 customers using Pegasus chips would focus on robotaxis, which will be built without steering wheels or brakes and used only on dedicated routes.
Bigger name automakers will announce vehicles running on Pegasus at their own product launches in coming months, he said.
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