NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier, World’s Most Powerful SoC, Offers Dramatic AI Capabilities
The NVIDIA DRIVE
Xavier system-on-a-chip brings AI to every aspect of the driving experience,
and provides a technological path forward for the 320-plus companies and
organizations working with NVIDIA on autonomous vehicles.
NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier
is built around a custom eight-core CPU, a new 512-core Volta GPU, a new deep
learning accelerator, new computer vision accelerators and new 8K HDR video
processors. With NVIDIA’s unified architecture, all previous NVIDIA DRIVE
software development carries over and runs. Xavier puts more processing power
to work using less energy, delivering 30 trillion operations per second while
consuming only 30 watts. It is 15 times more energy efficient than our previous-generation
architecture.
With more than 9
billion transistors, NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier is the most complex SoC ever created.
Xavier will power the NVIDIA DRIVE software stack, now expanded to a trio of AI
platforms covering every aspect of the experience inside next-generation
automobiles:
‧NVIDIA DRIVE AV – This autonomous vehicle
software stack performs functions such as ego-motion, perception, localization
and path planning. To realize fail operation capability, each functionality
includes a redundancy and diversity strategy.
‧NVIDIA DRIVE IX – This intelligent experience SDK
enables AI assistants for drivers and passengers, using sensors inside and
outside the car.
‧NVIDIA DRIVE AR – This augmented reality SDK enables
next-generation augmented reality interfaces that deliver information, identify
points of interest along a drive, create alerts and navigate safely and easily.
Xavier is a key
part of the NVIDIA DRIVE Pegasus AI computing platform. Delivering the
performance of a trunk full of PCs in an auto-grade form factor the size of a
license plate, it’s the world’s first AI car supercomputer designed for fully
autonomous Level 5 robotaxis.