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TECHNOLOGY REPORT
AI
Volvo EX90 uses AI, NVIDIA SoC to make automated driving safer
iors of the actual vehicle, " Bakkenes
said. The architecture also runs the
car's ADAS and autonomous driving
stack, which Volvo developed in-house
" based on our heritage of having done
years of safety research and pioneering
technology development in terms of
active safety. "
NVIDIA inside, and also outside
Volvo uses NVIDIA components not just
in the car but also in its data center,
which is heavily DGX-based, and on
desktops. Faster compute speeds, and
more sensors in Volvo vehicles allow the
developers to work at a pace that would
have been impossible before.
" We've always innovated but, typiVolvo
Cars opened its largest software testing center in the world in Sweden in late 2023.
As head of software engineering at
Volvo Cars, Alwin Bakkenes is involved
not just with all of the software and
electronics in Volvo's vehicles but also
the automaker's automotive cloud, the
data center that trains Volvo's algorithms,
the connectivity pipeline and
software updates as well as interactions
with Volvo's autonomous driving software
development subsidiary Zenseact
and HaleyTek, a joint venture with
ECARX to develop Android-based infotainment
systems for Volvo and
Polestar. This growing digital footprint
gives Volvo an array of tools to improve
its future vehicles, something Bakkenes
made clear when speaking with SAE
Media at the 2024 NVIDIA GTC event in
San Jose in March.
Volvo started working with NVIDIA
around eight years ago and first used
the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-achip
(SoC) technology in the updated
XC90 SUV, introduced in 2022. In 2023,
Volvo built a new 22,000 sq m
(236,806 sq ft) software testing center
in Sweden at a cost of around SEK 300
million (U.S. $28.4 million).
It's in Volvo's new EX90, though,
10 May 2024
where the NVIDIA effect can be best
seen. The all-electric SUV is equipped
with NVIDIA DRIVE technology and a
core compute architecture capable of
over 280 TOPS. The architecture consists
of two core computers that allow
Volvo to make the EV " an interfacefirst,
software-defined product where
we build and drive a lot of the behavcally,
these innovations took years to go
to market, " Bakkenes said. " With the
technology that we're introducing [in
the EX90], we can actually improve the
systems in a matter of weeks. And from
a pure developer perspective, we do it
in a matter of days. That ability to iterate
and learn from a large fleet of cars,
in terms of how the systems behave,
enables us to be really fast and deliver
better cars every day. "
The entire auto industry now has access
to AI and more powerful computers.
Even though everyone can improve
their development speeds this way,
The new Volvo EX90 at NVIDIA GTC 2024.
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