Volvo's upcoming EV to be powered by NVIDIA supercomputers
What's the story
Volvo is all set to shake up the automotive industry with its upcoming electric vehicle (EV), the ES90.
This mid-size luxury sedan will be powered by dual NVIDIA Drive AGX Orin chips, making it Volvo's "most powerful car ever" in terms of computing power.
The addition of this advanced supercomputer is part of Volvo's "Superset" tech stack strategy, which will also come into future models.
The premium electric sedan will be launched next month.
Tech capabilities
ES90's supercomputer will enable advanced AI-based safety features
The supercomputer in the ES90 will be capable of executing an mind-boggling 508 trillion operations per second.
This lightning-fast processing power will be utilized to provide advanced AI-based safety features, efficient battery management, and sensor management.
Notably, the ES90 is a major milestone as it is the first Volvo vehicle to come with this NVIDIA system-on-a-chip technology.
Processing power
NVIDIA's Orin system offers eightfold increase in processing speed
NVIDIA's Orin system offers an "eightfold" increase in processing speed over the Xavier computer, which was used by Volvo earlier.
This major processing power boost will enable Volvo to improve its deep learning model and neural network "from 40 million to 200 million parameters," the company said.
The future ES90 will be based on Volvo's SPA2 architecture, taking the automaker's tech game a step further.
Tech integration
ES90 to incorporate Volvo's Superset tech stack
The ES90 will be the second vehicle, after EX90, to feature Volvo's Superset tech stack.
This modular engineering platform will allow safer and efficient car production with continuous improvements via over-the-air software updates.
"The Volvo ES90 is one of the most technically advanced cars on the market today and is designed to be improved further with time," Anders Bell, Volvo's chief engineering and technology officer, said.