One thing that NVIDIA has made abundantly clear at the conferences it has attended this year is that it wants to play a major part in the ongoing convergence of the automotive and technology industries. While the company’s history with the automotive industry goes back several years, the rise of autonomous vehicles and infotainment systems has made NVIDIA triple its involvement in the industry. In fact, the company has announced that its powerful self-driving car computer, known as NVIDIA DRIVE PX, will launch in May.
The future, as the saying goes, is already here. It’s just unevenly distributed. Maybe that’s because it comes loaded with a trunk full of computers. So today we’re announcing pricing and availability for our NVIDIA PX development platform. Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, NVIDIA DRIVE PX is a powerful self-driving car computer designed to slip the power of deep neural networks into real-world cars. We’re making our DRIVE PX development platform available in May to automakers, Tier 1 automotive suppliers and research institutions, to get cars on the road toward driving themselves. NVIDIA DRIVE PX is built for the growing number of automakers that have already put – or soon will put – self-driving cars on the roads. The common denominator: all of these projects rely on NVIDIA GPU technology to help process and analyze, in real time, the data streaming in from sensors and cameras mounted all over the car.
