Volvo expands its collaboration with Nividia

Volvo has announced that it is deepening its collaboration with American technology firm Nvidia to fully develop the potential of its future software-defined cars that feature a centralised core computing architecture.

Volvo states that it is already set to introduce cars based on the Nvidia Drive Thor later this decade. Cars built on this computing architecture are said to be capable of up to 1,000 TOPS (that is, Tera Operations per Second) - four times as many operations per second as one Nividia Drive Orin system-on-a-chip, while offering seven times greater energy efficiency.

Volvo states that the integration of this new core computing architecture will allow it to future-proof its next generation of cars and deploy more advanced driving-assistance and safety features, develop autonomous driving, and introduce generative AI-based capabilities and in-car experiences.

To further explore the potential of AI, Volvo Cars, through its fully owned software company, Zenseact, is also using the NVIDIA DGX systems - an AI supercomputing platform optimised for large workloads - to help develop safe autonomous driving.