On January 5, at the CES 2022 exhibition, NVIDIA officially released the new generation of self-driving car platform Drive Hyperion 8. Vice President Ali Canney mentioned in his speech that many Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers such as PoleStar, Xiaopeng, Weilai and Ideal have become customers of NVIDIA and will use DRIVE technology as part of the computer brain of new cars.
The Drive Hyperion 8 platform is powered by NVIDIA's Drive Orin chip, complemented by 12 surround cameras, 9 radars, 12 ultrasonic, 1 front-facing lidar, and 3 internal sensing cameras. They form a powerful autonomous driving system that provides a smarter and safer autonomous driving function for the car.
Canney said the design architecture of the self-driving car is very safe in function, and if a computer or sensor fails, it will provide a backup to ensure that the car can take passengers to a safe place. In the future, it will also enrich and enhance the functionality of the car through online upgrades, and also help the company benefit from the software-driven business model.
Nvidia had previously predicted that its revenue in the automotive business would reach $8 billion in the next six years, and the new power of Chinese car manufacturing is of very high importance to its expansion of the automotive business. At present, the electric vehicle business revenue accounts for only a small part of Nvidia's total revenue, so Nvidia is constantly expanding its business territory in this area, in addition to attracting more customers, it also hopes to make progress in the autonomous truck business.
Today, newly launched electric vehicles are basically equipped with high-performance on-board computers and autonomous driving platforms. Among them, Tesla's new generation of car machine system is equipped with AMD processors, the computing power reaches the level of PS5, and its automatic driving system has also reached the industry-leading level, becoming the goal of major electric vehicle manufacturers to catch up.
Weilai, ideal, Xiaopeng and other new car-making forces choose to turn to NVIDIA, using its latest self-driving car platform, to a certain extent to get rid of the current lack of core dilemma, NVIDIA such a large factory supply capacity is still relatively guaranteed. More importantly, it is also hoped that with more powerful technologies and systems, the gap with Tesla will be shortened.
In the future, electric vehicles may not simply compete in power and endurance, but also compare the performance of the on-board computer, the level of automatic driving technology, etc., I believe that all car companies do not want to lag behind others in these aspects. NVIDIA provides a complete solution to all car companies, which should be able to attract many customers. Can Tesla withstand the pressure, and can Wei Xiaoli take this opportunity to catch up with Tesla? Worth looking forward to.