NVIDIA and Aurora Collaborate to Build Next-Generation Autonomous Vehicle Compute Platform
January 08 2018 - 12:05AM
CES --
NVIDIA and
Aurora today announced that they are working together to create a
new Level 4 and Level 5 self-driving hardware platform that will
use the NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier™ processor.
At the opening press conference of CES 2018, NVIDIA founder and
CEO Jensen Huang disclosed that NVIDIA’s automotive team is working
with Aurora to bring up a new modular and scalable DRIVE Xavier
platform that will bring autonomous vehicles to market.
“NVIDIA created DRIVE Xavier for companies like Aurora,” said
Huang. “Our two world-class engineering teams share a common
understanding of the power of AI and the enormous processing
required to enable advanced self-driving cars and
mobility-as-a-service solutions.”
“Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving
quickly and safely around the world. To do that, we are developing
a platform that scales across a broad range of makes and models
from our automotive partners,” said Chris Urmson, CEO of Aurora.
“NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier is a key element of Aurora’s computer,
delivering the performance needed to power our self-driving
system.”
Aurora, a leading self-driving system company, was founded in
2017 by three pioneers of the self-driving car industry. With its
automotive partners, Aurora expects to deploy Level 4 and Level 5
cars on the world’s roads in the coming years.
About AuroraBased in Silicon Valley,
California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Aurora designs and builds
self-driving technology. Aurora works with leading automakers to
integrate, pilot and deploy advanced self-driving platforms around
the world. Founded by Chris Urmson, Sterling Anderson and Drew
Bagnell, Aurora is working to solve today’s most complex AI,
automation and engineering challenges to improve transportation and
positively impact our cities. More information at
www.aurora.tech.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
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limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact and goals of
NVIDIA and Aurora’s collaboration; the power of AI and the
processing required to enable advanced self-driving cars and
mobility-as-a service solutions; and the benefits, abilities and
performance of NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier are forward-looking statements
that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
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of technological development and competition; development of new
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and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our
partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects;
changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry
standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our
products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as
other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA
files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC,
including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended October 29,
2017. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the
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NVIDIA logo, NVIDIA DRIVE and NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier are trademarks
and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and
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Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to
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For further information,
contact:Aurorapress@aurora.tech
Fazel AdabiPR Manager for AutomotiveNVIDIA Corporation(818)
987-7887 fadabi@nvidia.com
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