From Car to Cloud: Volvo Cars Expands Partnership with NVIDIA
Instead of focusing on technology for technology's sake, Volvo Cars (VC) develops human-centered technologies that create value and make cars safer and life better without compromising safety. One of the key parts of this goal is the software-defined car, which integrates next-generation safety, connectivity, data and software into one product.
According to foreign media reports, based on a long-term cooperation with NVIDIA (NVIDIA), Volvo launched its first truly software-defined car new Volvo EX90.
The EX90's leading core computing system is powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-chip (SoC), which can perform more than 250 trillion operations per second (TOPS). This core computing system orchestrates everything in the automobile: from supporting deep learning capabilities for AI-based active safety and driver assistance systems, to helping introduce safe autonomous driving in the future and delivering a best-in-class customer experience.
To help realize the full potential of software-defined cars with a centralized core computing architecture, Volvo is taking its partnership with NVIDIA to the next level. By the end of the century, the two companies will introduce NVIDIA DRIVE Thor-based cars that are capable of up to 1,000 TOPs of computing power, which is equivalent to four times the computing power per second of a DRIVE Orin SoC, while delivering seven times the energy efficiency.
The integration of DRIVE Thor will help further ensure that Volvo's next-generation cars are future-proof. Integrating DRIVE Thor with the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture will enable Volvo to deploy more advanced driver assistance and safety features, develop autonomous driving, and introduce AI-based generative features and in-vehicle experiences.
To further explore the potential of AI, Volvo Cars is also using the NVIDIA DGX system, an AI supercomputing platform optimized for large workloads, through its wholly owned software company, Zenseact, to help develop safe autonomous driving.
The DGX system is used for AI model training and will later be deployed in our future fleet. With the power of NVIDIA's DGX platform, which leverages its purpose-built AI infrastructure and optimized software stack, Volvo can increase the efficiency of training current and future AI models.
With Volvo's longstanding partnership with NVIDIA and use of the production-proven NVIDIA DRIVE platform, Ask Extra is able to further explore and apply its deep understanding of safety when training large-scale base AI models. These models are used to help cars better understand the world around them to further improve their safety and convenience and develop autonomous driving.
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