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Briefing
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- System-on-a-Chip – NVIDIA launched new DRIVE Xavier system-on-a-chip (SoC) to power computing in autonomous vehicles, available beginning 2018 Q1
- Energy Efficient Chip – Delivers 30 trillion operations per second while consuming 30 watts of power, 15 times more energy efficient than previous generation chip
- Components – Include nine billion transistors, custom eight-core chip, new 512-core Volta graphic processing unit (GPU), deep learning accelerator, computer vision accelerators, and 8K high dynamic range (HDR) video processors
- Dedicated Resources – Product of more than 2,000 engineers working in four-year period, with investment in research and development at $2 billion
- DRIVE IX – Software development kit enabling smart assistants for driverless cars to analyze sensor data
- DRIVE AR – Software development kit powering next-generation augmented reality interfaces, delivering information while driving, creating alerts, and enabling safe navigation
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Information Technology, Transportation and Logistics
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Organization
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Nvidia Corp.
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Source
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Shapiro, D., "NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier, world’s most powerful SoC, brings dramatic new AI capabilities",
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Frank, B., "Nvidia levels up self-driving car silicon with new Xavier chip",
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Gagliordi, N., "At CES 2018, Nvidia launches Xavier, an effort to meld autonomous driving and AI",
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AcceleratingBiz analysis
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Original Publication Date
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January 7, 2018
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