Nvidia Corp. is partnering with BYD, a Chinese automotive vendor, on new energy vehicles (NEVs) that will use Nvidia’s Drive Orin centralized software-defined platform.
The partnership expands BYD’s use of the Drive platform across the multiple models in its next generation Dynasty and Ocean series of vehicles.
The future cars will be programmable and evolve from being based on embedded controllers to high performance centralized computers through software updates over the life of the car. Driver Orin uses redundant sensor processing in real time and gives OEMs headroom to develop and support new software-driven services through the life of the vehicle.
Since last year, the transportation artificial intelligence (AI) engine can be used for a wide range of vehicles such as NEVs, robotaxis, shuttles and trucks. The compute platform is capable of performing up to 254 trillion operations per second. This can enable AI cockpits as well as automated driving functions to run simultaneously on deep neural networks.
BYD has sold more than 3.7 million NEVs globally through February 2023 and will use the Drive Orin platform along with Nvidia GeForce Now cloud gaming service for its future vehicles.
