Wang Long Chai
05 Sep 2024 16:40
Volvo’s new electric EX90 SUV, built on NVIDIA’s DRIVE Orin SoC, offers advanced safety and autonomous driving capabilities.
Volvo Cars’ latest product, the all-electric EX90 SUV, is now rolling off the automaker’s assembly line in Charleston, South Carolina, and into dealerships across the U.S. The vehicle is built with cutting-edge NVIDIA technology to ensure advanced safety features and performance.
Advanced Computing for Enhanced Safety
The Volvo EX90 is equipped with the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-chip (SoC), which processes more than 250 trillion operations per second (TOPS). This high-performance computing power is used to run NVIDIA DriveOS, a system that facilitates all vehicle functions, from safety and driver assistance to autonomous driving functions.
The EX90 features Volvo’s most advanced sensor suite, including radar, lidar, cameras and ultrasonic sensors. The NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoC processes data from these sensors in real time, providing 360-degree surround sensor data processing. This technology supports Volvo’s commitment to safety, ensuring a safe and efficient driving experience.
Prepare for the future with DRIVE Thor
Going forward, Volvo Cars plans to integrate the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE Thor SoC into its upcoming vehicles. The DRIVE Thor SoC promises 1,000 TOPS, quadrupling the processing power of the current DRIVE Orin SoC and making it seven times more energy efficient.
The new processor integrates the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture, opening up new possibilities for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving functions. Volvo CEO Jim Rowan emphasized that DRIVE Thor will make the company’s own software more scalable, improve safety, and enhance the customer experience.
Zenseact’s strategic investment in AI
Volvo Cars and its software subsidiary Genseact are investing heavily in NVIDIA DGX systems to train AI models in the cloud, which will be essential for equipping future cars with advanced AI-based safety features.
NVIDIA DGX systems accelerate autonomous driving technology development by providing the computational power needed to efficiently train AI models. Volvo and Zenseact’s AI training hub in the Nordics leverages these systems to streamline ADAS and autonomous driving software development.
“The NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer will enhance our AI training capabilities, making this in-house AI training center one of the largest in the Nordics,” said Anders Bell, chief engineering and technology officer at Volvo Cars. “By leveraging NVIDIA technology and building our data center, we are accelerating the path to high-performance AI, ultimately helping us make our products safer and better.”
Volvo Cars and Genact aim to provide safer, more reassuring vehicles for customers, with NVIDIA technology serving as the AI brain both inside the car and in the cloud.
For more information, visit the NVIDIA blog.
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