Nvidia invents Xavier for self-driving Cars with Audi

Nvidia invents Xavier  for self-driving Cars with Audi.




At CES 2017, Nvidia took the wraps off a new computer designed to enable self-driving cars, and announced partnership with Audi, Bosch, ZF, Here and Zenrin.

Nvidia founder and CEO jen-Hsun Huang at CES 2017

Nvidia founder and CEO jen-Hsun Huang used his keynote address during CES 2017 to show of a new computer, named Xavier, to enable self-driving cars, and to lay out how the company's self-driving car platform work.



Backing up his product announcements, Huang went on to call out new partnership to cement Nvidia's Place in the automotive industry.



"We would like to turn every car into AI [ artificial intelligence ]," Huang said. to support that goal, he brought Scott Keogh, Audi of America's president, out onto the stage to announce a partnership that promises highly-automated Audi vehicles by 2020. The term circumstances, like while on certain freeway.





During his keynote, Huang said Nvidia has been developing self-driving technology for 10 years. Xavier will be a new generation of driving computer from Nvidia, following up on previous efforts. This computer would be the brains of a self-driving car, processing data from sensors, determining the car's location from maps and making driving decisions.





Xavier, a system on a chip, uses an octa-core ARM64 processor and Nvidia's new Volta graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture to do 30,000 TOPS (trillion operations per second). Nvidia emphasizes its GPU expertise as the basis for performing the environment assessment needed for self-driving cars. Huang pointed out that machine learning, essential for cars to recognize obstacles, advanced thanks to the GPU.



source : CNET