Volvo Cars renew its partnership with NVIDIA to reshape the landscape of automotive technology. Far from a mere technological pursuit, Volvo’s innovations revolve around creating real-world value—ensuring cars are safer, smarter, and more connected.
The Volvo EX90 stands as a testament to this vision, emerging as the first fully software-defined model from the brand. Powered by the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC), capable of processing 250 trillion operations per second, the EX90 orchestrates everything from safety systems to the sophisticated driving assistance that will pave the way for autonomous driving.
As Volvo continues on its technological roadmap, its collaboration with NVIDIA deepens. Jim Rowan, CEO of Volvo Cars, highlights this evolution: “With NVIDIA DRIVE Thor in our future cars, our in-house developed software becomes more scalable across our product line-up, which will help us to continue to improve the safety in our cars, deliver best-in-class customer experiences, reduce our costs, and increase our margins.”
Next-generation models, set to debut later this decade, will incorporate NVIDIA DRIVE Thor—a system with 1,000 TOPS, delivering four times the power of DRIVE Orin while boosting energy efficiency by a factor of seven. The inclusion of this technology is poised to further Volvo’s efforts in autonomous driving and intelligent in-car systems.
Alongside this, Volvo’s fully owned software firm, Zenseact, has deployed NVIDIA’s AI supercomputing platform, DGX, to train AI models that will govern the autonomous driving capabilities of future fleets. The DGX platform’s AI infrastructure fast-tracks the development of these models, significantly improving safety and operational efficiency.
Anders Bell, a key figure at Volvo, affirms, “The NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputer will supercharge our AI training capabilities, making this in-house AI training data centre one of the largest in the Nordics. By leveraging NVIDIA technology and setting up the data centre, we can pave a quick path to high-performing AI, ultimately helping make our products safer and better.”
The long-standing partnership with NVIDIA has empowered Volvo to evolve far beyond conventional automotive design, with the EX90 marking only the beginning of what is possible.
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