Nvidia expands automotive partnerships for autonomous driving
Nvidia has announced new agreements with several automakers for its Drive Hyperion autonomous driving platform. The group aims to strengthen its presence in a sector considered a strategic growth driver.
Nvidia has said that it is expanding its partnerships in the field of autonomous driving with several automakers, including Hyundai Motor, Nissan, Isuzu, as well as the Chinese groups BYD and Geely. These agreements focus on the Nvidia Drive Hyperion platform, a system designed to develop and deploy advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving functions. This technology specifically targets Level 4 vehicles, capable of operating without human intervention in certain areas or specific conditions.
During the GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang estimated that the industry is entering a new phase of development. He stated that "the ChatGPT moment of autonomous driving has arrived," referring to the acceleration of progress thanks to artificial intelligence. Nvidia also announced four new partners for its robotaxi platform, highlighting that the number of vehicles ready for this type of service could increase significantly in the coming years.
The Drive Hyperion platform is part of the comprehensive ecosystem developed by Nvidia for autonomous driving, which includes model training in data centers, large-scale simulations, and on-board computer systems in vehicles. Companies already using these technologies include Aurora, Nuro, Sony, Uber, Stellantis, and the electric vehicle manufacturer Lucid. However, Nvidia does not manufacture autonomous vehicles or most of the components necessary for their operation.
NVIDIA Corporation is the world leader in the design, development, and marketing of programmable graphics processors. The group also develops associated software. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- computing and networking solutions (89%): data center platforms and infrastructure, Ethernet interconnect solutions, high-performance computing solutions, platforms and solutions for autonomous and intelligent vehicles, solutions for enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure, crypto-currency mining processors, embedded computer boards for robotics, teaching, learning and artificial intelligence development, etc.;
- graphics processors (11%): for PCs, game consoles, video game streaming platforms, workstations, etc. (GeForce, NVIDIA RTX, Quadro brands, etc.). The group also offers laptops, desktops, gaming computers, computer peripherals (monitors, mice, joysticks, remote controls, etc.), software for visual and virtual computing, platforms for automotive infotainment systems and cloud collaboration platforms.
Net sales break down by industry between data storage (88.3%), gaming (8.7%), professional visualization (1.4%), automotive (1.3%) and other (0.3%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (46.9%), Singapore (18.2%), Taiwan (15.8%), China and Hong Kong (13.1%) and other (6%).
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