Volvo’s next electric vehicle, the ES90 medium-sized luxury sedan, sounds like it has a serious computing chop.
The new EV comes with a dual NVIDIA drive AGX Orin configuration, the company claims it is “the most powerful car Volvo ever created in terms of core computing capabilities.” The new supercomputer is included as part of a single technology stack called a superset. Volvo says it will support all next-generation vehicles in the future.
The ES90 will be Volvo’s first vehicle on NVIDIA’s system-on-chip, running core functions at Lightning speed thanks to its ability to perform 508 trillion operations per second (TOPS). You will be able to do it. This is useful when managing features such as “AI-based cutting edge active safety features, car sensors, and efficient battery management.”
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The Orin System also represents an “8x” improvement in processing speeds at Xavier Computer, a San Jose-based chip maker, featured in the 2018 announcement of an in-vehicle hardware team-up between Volvo and Nvidia. The company says Volvo’s “increasing processing power to allow it to gradually strengthen its deep learning models and neural networks from 40 million to 200 million parameters.”
The ES90 is built on Volvo’s SPA2 architecture and will become the second vehicle after the EX90, based on a superset technology stack. SuperSet is a modular engineering platform the company says will be used to manufacture safer cars more efficiently and improve over time through airborne software updates.
Tesla was the first company to introduce the idea of connected vehicles with updatable software that could be improved over Timne. Now, the rest of the industry is rushing to catch up by introducing their own upgradeable vehicles. While Volvo’s EX90 was intended as the first major effort, the electric SUV was delayed due to software troubles, missing many of the features promised when it finally arrived.
Volvo says it envisions a future where features such as driver assist technology and battery range can improve over time thanks to this new technology stack. The EX90 improvements are translated to the ES90 and vice versa.
“The Volvo ES90 is one of the most technically advanced cars on the market today and is designed to improve even more over time,” Andersbell, Volvo’s chief engineering and technology officer, said in a statement. It states. “Based on a cutting-edge superset technology stack, the ES90 puts safety at the forefront.”
