GM, Gatik, Torc team up with Nvidia to accelerate self-driving

NVIDIA’s GTC conference kicked off with a series of announcements highlighting its role in advancing autonomous driving technology. The chipmaker provides automakers and autonomous vehicle companies with a handful of Nvidia-branded tools to help power self-driving cars and create digital twins of factories. On Tuesday, companies including Torc, Gatik, and even General Motors announced plans to use Nvidia products for vehicle production, robotics to automated driving. To avoid any confusion among the slew of brand names Nvidia has bestowed upon its hardware and software tools, here’s a quick glossary of terms: Drive AGX: Nvidia’s in-vehicle supercomputer that processes real-time sensor data. Nvidia’s in-vehicle supercomputer that processes real-time sensor data. Drive Orin SoC: A system-on-a-chip that is a more advanced central computer. Orin processes data from various sensors and powers new AVs at Level 4 autonomy. A system-on-a-chip that is a more advanced central computer. Orin ... Read full article.