Nvidia's CEO, Jen-Hsung Huang, recently announced during his keynote at CES 2017 that it would be merging along with Audi to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for a new generation of self-driving cars by 2020.
Major Car Specification
Nvidia has promised a new version of its car supercomputer chip, dubbed Xavier. The chip is believed to have eight high-end computing cores as well as 512 graphics processors that are capable of handling advanced tasks such as recognizing pedestrians near a road.
Reason Behind This Huge Partnership
The main reason that the president of Audi gave for this partnership is related to fats 10 years ago. He said that they grew their sale of cars from 60,000 to about 210,000 cars a year and all this was possible due to their addition of new technology which was all done by Nvidia's technology. He also added by saying that AI is a fast moving technology and has is on the horizon. The big tech trade show featured a demo drive by the self-driving car by Nvidia showing what the future holds for everyone in the term of cars.
Nvidia and Audi aim to provide the world with AI featured car and it would be made possible soon enough. The demo drive was performed in a Q7 SUV that learned to drive itself in three days but this would not be it. Their goal is to put forward Level 4 autonomy on roads by 2020.
Some Facts Still Unknown
There are a lot of facts yet unknown after this huge announcement made by Nvidia and after the demo drive shown at CES 2017. Whether the road map studied by the car would be the best and will the cars be something that one can buy or just be miles? These facts are still not answered and the answer is far away until then all that is known is that this would set up a huge milestone for NVIDIA.
