China electric vehicle maker XPENG Motors has announced its new G6 coupe SUV — featuring an NVIDIA-powered intelligent advanced driver assistance system — is now available to the China market. The G6 is XPENG’s first model featuring the company’s proprietary Smart Electric Platform Architecture (SEPA) 2.0, which aims to reduce development and manufacturing costs and […]
NVIDIA Research Wins Autonomous Driving Challenge, Innovation Award at CVPR
NVIDIA will be showcased next week as the winner of the fiercely contested 3D Occupancy Prediction Challenge for autonomous driving development at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), in Vancouver, Canada. The competition had more than 400 submissions from nearly 150 teams across 10 regions. 3D occupancy prediction is the process of forecasting […]
MediaTek Partners With NVIDIA to Transform Automobiles With AI and Accelerated Computing
MediaTek, a leading innovator in connectivity and multimedia, is teaming with NVIDIA to bring drivers and passengers new experiences inside the car. The partnership was announced today at a COMPUTEX press conference with MediaTek CEO Rick Tsai and NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang. “NVIDIA is a world-renowned pioneer and industry leader in AI and […]
Sarah Tariq Drives Autonomous Vehicle Software
Sarah Tariq joined NVIDIA 18 years ago as an intern — and is now the company’s vice president of autonomous driving software, leading a team of several hundred engineers. Originally from Islamabad, Pakistan, Tariq is based in Silicon Valley with a team spread across the U.S., Europe, India and China. They’re focused on developing next-generation, […]
NVIDIA Achieves Safety Milestones With DRIVE Hyperion Autonomous Vehicle Platform
More than 50 automotive companies around the world have deployed over 800 autonomous test vehicles powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion automotive compute architecture, which has recently achieved new safety milestones. The latest NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion architecture is based on the DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC). Many NVIDIA DRIVE processes, as well as hardware and software […]
NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion Takes the Wheel at Auto Shanghai
Shanghai is once again showing why it’s called the “Magic City” as more than 1,000 exhibitors from 20 countries dazzle the automotive world this week at the highly anticipated International Automobile Industry Exhibition. With nearly 1,500 vehicles on display, the 20th edition of Auto Shanghai is showcasing the newest AI-powered cars and mobility solutions using […]
From Training AI in the Cloud to Running It on the Road, Transportation Leaders Trust NVIDIA DRIVE
Transportation industry trailblazers are propelling their next-generation vehicles by building on NVIDIA DRIVE end-to-end solutions, which span the cloud to the car. The world’s best-selling new energy vehicle (NEV) brand BYD announced at NVIDIA GTC that it’s using the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin centralized compute platform to power an even wider range of vehicles within its […]
NVIDIA AI and Omniverse Enable Automakers to Transform Their Entire Workflow
The automotive industry is undergoing a digital revolution, driven by breakthroughs in accelerated computing, AI and the industrial metaverse. Automakers are digitalizing every phase of the product lifecycle — including concept and styling, design and engineering, software and electronics, smart factories, autonomous driving and retail — using the NVIDIA Omniverse platform and AI. Based on […]
XPENG G9 Heightens Innovation with DRIVE Orin
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to reflect the XPENG G9 launch. It was originally published in November 2021. You don’t need a private plane to be at the forefront of personal travel. Electric automaker XPENG launched the G9 SUV this week during NVIDIA GTC. The intelligent, software-defined vehicle is built on the high-performance […]
Polestar 3 Sets New Standard for Premium SUVs
The age of electric vehicles has arrived and, with it, an entirely new standard for premium SUVs. Polestar, the performance EV brand spun out from Volvo Cars, launched its third model today in Copenhagen. With the Polestar 3, the automaker has taken SUV design back to the drawing board, building a vehicle as innovative as […]