Volvo will use Nvidia’s latest generation of chips to enable more autonomous driving functions in its future vehicles.
The Swedish car manufacturer will use Nvidia’s latest Drive Orin system that has more processing power than Nvidia chips that Volvo vehicles currently use. The next-generation XC90 will be the first new vehicle to use the Drive Orin system which is capable of 254 trillion operations per second.
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“We believe in partnering with the world’s leading technology firms to build the best Volvos possible,” Volvo chief technology officer Henrik Green said. “With the help of NVIDIA DRIVE Orin technology, we can take safety to the next level on our next generation of cars.”
Nvidia’s Drive Orin system will work alongside software developed in-house by Zenseact, Volvo Cars’ autonomous driving software development company. The automaker says the new system provides the power and graphics processing needed for autonomous driving and to use the state-of-the-art LiDAR technology developed by Luminar, another Volvo Cars partner.
Volvo says its SPA2 architecture that the next-generation XC90 will use will be hardware-ready for autonomous vehicles from the start of production. It will include an unsupervised autonomous driving feature dubbed Highway Pilot that will be activated when it is proven to be safe for certain geographic locations and conditions.
In addition to using Nvidia’s Drive Orin system, future Volvo models will use the Nvidia Drive Xavier computer to manage core functionalities inside the car, including base-software, energy management, and driver assistance.
