NVIDIA Corp (NVDA)

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Nvidia, the graphic-card master, wants to do for self-driving cars what it’s done for gaming and supercomputing. It wants to supply the hardware core—the automotive brain onto which others can build their applications.

It’s called Drive PX, and next month it will be released to auto makers and top-tier suppliers for US $10,000 a pop. It packs a pair of the company’s Tegra X1 processors, each capable of a bit more than a teraflop—a trillion floating-point operations per second. Together they can manage up to 12 cameras, including units that monitor the driver for things like drowsiness or distractedness. “Sensor fusion,” which puts the various streams of data into a single picture, can even include input from radar and its laser-ranging equivalent, lidar. The result is the ability to recognize cars, pedestrians and street signs.

Auto companies that work with Nvidia (which, by the way, already has processors of one kind or another in some 8 million cars) and are presumed to be lining up for the development kit include Tesla, Audi and BMW, as well as top-tier suppliers, such as Delphi. These companies will build their own systems on top of the Nvidia framework.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/nvidia-wants-to-build-the-robocars-brain