On January 4, 2022, Tucson Future (Nasdaq:TSP), a global driverless technology company, and NVIDIA announced that they will deepen their strategic partnership to design and develop next-generation driverless domain controllers designed for the needs of L4 driverless truck scenarios. The product will be powered by NVIDIA's latest generation of autonomous vehicle system-level chips, NVIDIA DRIVE Orin.
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoC (System-on-Chip), capable of 254 trillion operations per second (254 TOPS), is the central computer for driverless vehicles. This partnership with NVIDIA will provide Tucson's Future Driverless Systems (ADS) with powerful computing power and accelerate the future scaling of Tucson's Driverless Freight Network (AFN).
As the central computational unit of the driverless system, the computing power of the unmanned domain controller (ADC) needs to reach thousands of TOPS to achieve critical tasks such as perception, planning and decision-making. The deepening of the strategic cooperation between the two parties will accelerate the process of Tucs' independent research and development of high-performance, vehicle-grade, and large-scale driverless domain controllers, and will enhance Tucs' control over ADC product development.
Cheng Lu, Future President and CEO of Tucson, said: "High-performance, mass-produced ADCs are one of the key elements enabling large-scale operation of Tucson's driverless freight networks. We have been looking forward to working with NVIDIA to be personally involved in the development of the next generation of ADCs." This partnership will give Tucson a huge competitive advantage, further strengthen our leading position in the entire field of driverless trucks, and accelerate the commercialization of driverless vehicles." ”
In this in-depth strategic cooperation, Tucson will leverage its extensive experience in the development of L4-level driverless truck systems in the future, and NVIDIA will leverage its decades of experience in the development of cutting-edge computing platforms to provide drive Orin hardware and artificial intelligence expertise.
Gary Hicok, senior vice president of engineering at NVIDIA, said: "We have been a strong supporter of Tucson since 2017, when Tucson became a member of NVIDIA Inception. From the development of driverless systems using NVIDIA GPUs to the development of domain controllers based on DRIVE Orin, Tucson continues to pioneer innovations in the field of driverless trucks. It is believed that with the strategic blessing of NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-chip, Tucson's next-generation ADC products will promote the development of the entire driverless truck industry. "