Core computing still
Volvo Cars is deepening its collaboration with NVIDIA: The Swedish premium car manufacturer will launch vehicles based on the NVIDIA DRIVE® Thor platform before the end of this decade. With up to 1,000 trillion operations per second, the core computing system is four times faster than the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC) technology used in the new Volvo EX90 – and seven times more energy efficient. This makes the next generation of Volvo vehicles even more powerful and future-proof.
The Volvo EX90 is the first software-defined model from the Swedish premium car brand. The large electric SUV is based on an industry-leading core computing system: the in-vehicle AI computer uses the NVIDIA DRIVE® SoC platform with up to 250 trillion operations per second. This high performance forms the basis for all advanced activities that ensure a first-class customer experience – from deep learning of active safety and assistance systems supported by artificial intelligence (AI) to safe autonomous driving in the future.
Experts complement internal specialists
Software-defined vehicles play a central role at Volvo. They combine safety, connectivity, data and next-generation software. The company relies on both internal developments and intelligent partnerships with world-leading specialists such as NVIDIA to quickly offer the latest technology and make cars even safer.
To realize the full potential of software-defined vehicles with core computing architecture, Volvo Cars is now taking its collaboration with NVIDIA to the next level. The integration of DRIVE Thor, which utilizes the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture, enables more advanced assistance and safety features as well as the further development of autonomous driving and the introduction of generative AI-based functions and experiences in the vehicle.
Paving the way for autonomous driving
To further explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI), Volvo Cars is also using NVIDIA DGX systems – an AI supercomputing platform optimized for large workloads – through its own software company Zenseact. It promotes the development of safe autonomous driving. The DGX systems will initially be used to train AI models before being deployed on the road in future Volvo fleets. Using specially developed AI infrastructure and optimized software stacks, the platform will increase the efficiency of training current and future AI models.
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