On March 23, 2022, BYD announced a partnership with NVIDIA on smart driving technology.
From the first half of 2023, BYD will be equipped with NVIDIA's DRIVE Hyperion platform on some of its new energy vehicles to achieve intelligent vehicle driving and intelligent parking.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced a collaboration with BYD on smart driving technology at GTC2022
BYD is a leader in the electric vehicle industry, and NVIDIA is a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. In this cooperation, the two sides will jointly combine strong and complementary advantages, and jointly promote the in-depth development of the new energy automobile industry towards intelligence and informatization.
BYD auto will use NVIDIA's DRIVE Orin chip
Nvidia DRIVE Orin is the world's highest performance vehicle specification grade chip, is the "brain" of the next generation of automotive artificial intelligence.
With a computing power of up to 254TOPS, 254 trillion computations per second, a high-speed peripheral interface and high memory bandwidth (205GB/s), drive Orin chips seamlessly process data from multiple sensor configurations for safe and reliable intelligent driving.
NVIDIA's DRIVE Orin chip complies with systematic safety standards such as ISO 26262 ASIL-D, ensuring the safety and advanced nature of intelligent driving.
Rishi Dhall, vice president of Nvidia's automotive business, said: "The drivers of transformation in the automotive industry include electrification and the autonomy of devices given by software-defined technologies. Under the empowerment of artificial intelligence technology and NVIDIA's DRIVE platform, bydir's electric vehicles will be software-defined, ensuring safety and reliability while constantly innovating with the advancement of the times. ”
BYD has now become a leading brand of new energy vehicles in China, achieving global sales of nearly 600,000 new energy passenger vehicles in 2021, and winning the top spot in China's new energy passenger car sales for the ninth time; the cumulative production and sales of new energy have exceeded 1.5 million units.