At CES 2023, Nvidia Corp. and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) have formed a strategic partnership where Foxconn will develop automated and autonomous vehicle platforms using Nvidia’s Drive Orin platform.
As part of the agreement, Foxconn will be a tier-one manufacturer producing electronic control units using the Nvidia Drive Orin for vehicles in the global automotive market.
Foxconn will develop electric vehicles (EVs) based on the Drive Hyperion sensors and the ECUs from Nvidia that will also feature autonomous or automated capabilities.
Additionally, the partnership will allow Nvidia to scale its efforts to meet demand as more transportation companies select Drive Orin for intelligent vehicles, the company said. The partnership will provide OEMs with a supplier to scale volume manufacturing on the Nvidia Drive Orin platform as well as the Drive Hyperion sensor suite.
Orin and Hyperion
Nvidia’s automotive system achieves up to 254 trillion operations per second and is designed to handle several applications and deep neural networks that run simultaneously in autonomous vehicles. Drive Hyperion is a modular development platform and architecture for autonomous vehicles.
Both systems serve as the brain and central nervous system of an intelligent vehicle, producing massive amounts of sensor data in real time, Nvidia said.
Last year, Nvidia said it had signed a total of 25 companies to the Nvidia Drive Orin system for both automated, electric and autonomous vehicles. This represented an automated design win pipeline of more than $11 billion over the next six years.
CES 2023 takes place Jan. 5-8 in Las Vegas.
