After Intel bought Mobileye for $15.3 billion, the fierce competition in the autopilot field became more prominent. In addition to buying and buying to expand their own volume, the gang is also one of the important means to maintain a leading position in the competition. Intel chose the former, and Nvidia and Bosch chose the latter to develop an autonomous vehicle computing platform for OEMs.
And NVIDIA has slowly transformed from a chip company to a platform enterprise. It is not only the manufacturer that manufactures graphics cards, it is also involved in the automatic driving of cars. Just a manufacturer in the IT industry is entering the car, always looking for a partner with manufacturing experience, this time they are looking for Bosch.
Bosch, as a spare parts giant in the automotive industry, is self-evident for many OEMs, especially for those with less technical strength, and often use their technical solutions as a whole. Now the cooperation between NVIDIA and Bosch is that Bosch uses NVIDIA's Drive PX 2 autopilot platform and then integrates it. The integrated platform is then enjoyed as a product to the OEM. Of course, in the subsequent cooperation, they will also be more customized development according to the needs.
Bosch is not the first partner of NVIDIA in the field of autonomous driving. The first partner is Baidu. NVIDIA needs to rely on Baidu's technological advantages in artificial intelligence to perfect its platform. Of course, after working with Bosch, NVIDIA has formed a chip-software-platform chain in the driverless chain, which has also expanded its competitive advantage.
NVI and Bosch, one of the world's largest Tier 1 suppliers of auto parts, announced a partnership to develop a mass-produced autopilot computing platform for automakers based on NVIDIA's deep learning software and Drive PX processor. .
It is reported that this newly developed system will use Nvidia's new-generation in-vehicle Soc, Xavier, released at CES. Its computing performance can reach 30TFLOPS, while the power consumption is only 30W, compared to the Drive PX2 on-board computing platform released last year, 8TFLOPS/ With 250W performance, Xavier has made a leap forward in performance and power consumption. Xavier can realize multi-sensor fusion, integrate the camera, radar, lidar and ultrasonic sensor signals of self-driving cars, and sense the surrounding environment through deep neural network to calculate the driving route. Xavier's outstanding performance also gives Nvidia a high hope for it - the computing giant hopes it will provide computing support for the fourth level of autonomous driving. The fourth level of automatic driving means that the vehicle can complete the driving task by itself without the human driver participating in most of the time.
Bosch and Nvidia initially announced that the cooperation plan is also at CES. The signing of the agreement between the two parties represents the landing of this cooperation project. In view of Bosch's vast global production capacity and customer base, the cooperation with Bosch can significantly expand the market share of NVIDIA's autonomous driving products, and at the same time, it will also take a step in mass production capacity.
In addition to Bosch, NVIDIA has established strong alliances with many other car manufacturers and component suppliers. Volvo, Audi, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Honda, Baidu and another auto parts supplier, ZF, have signed a deal or cooperation agreement with Nvidia. Mobileye's old Tesla, a large number of NVIDIA's Drive PX2 self-driving car platform, is used in a large number of production cars.
Although Nvidia's current core business is still the main graphics card for games, in recent years, Nvidia has made frequent efforts in the field of artificial intelligence, not only providing low-level hardware support for deep learning, but also actively using its hardware advantages to enter the automotive industry. Automated driving provides a software and hardware integrated solution.
Bosch is actively developing autonomous driving technology, not only obtaining California's auto-driving vehicle test license, but also promoting the drive test of self-driving cars. In its 2016 autopilot test data submitted to the California Traffic Management Bureau, Bosch conducted 983 miles of unmanned road tests last year, but autopilots “decoupled†as many as 1,442 times, requiring an average human driver for every 0.7 miles. Intervention once. The cooperation with Nvidia is believed to help Bosch accelerate its development of its autonomous driving technology and improve reliability.
Paul Cuatrecasas, CEO of British investment bank Aquaa Partners, said that Bosch, as a giant in a wide range of businesses, realized that automation technology may not only drive cars in the future, but also drive almost all appliances. product. For Bosch, this is a new investment, and if it returns, it will bring a significant growth to Bosch.
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