Automotive
Nvidia’s Orin SoC chipset had been on Nvidia’s roadmaps for over 2 years now, and last December we got the first new details of the new automotive oriented silicon chip, revealing characteristics such as it containing 12 core cores of Arm’s newest “Hercules” microarchitecture (A77 successor). Orin is meant to be the heart of Nvidia’s upcoming DRIVE automotive platforms, and today the company is ready to reveal a few more important details such as the scalability of the SoC and the different DRIVE solutions. NVIDIA ARM SoC Specification Comparison Orin Xavier Parker CPU Cores 12x Arm "Hercules" 8x NVIDIA Custom ARM "Carmel" 2x NVIDIA Denver + 4x Arm Cortex-A57 GPU Cores Ampere iGPU (?? cores) Xavier Volta iGPU (512 CUDA Cores) Parker Pascal iGPU (256 CUDA Cores) INT8 DL TOPS 200 TOPS 30 TOPS N/A FP32 TFLOPS ? 1.3 TFLOPs 0.7 TFLOPs Manufacturing Process 7nm? TSMC 12nm FFN TSMC 16nm FinFET TDP ~5-45W 30W 15W Specifications wise...
CEVA Announces SensPro - New High Performance Sensor Hub IP
As devices become ever more interconnected and increase their capabilities to sense the world through different kind of sensors, there’s an ever more increasing stream of data that is...
11 by Andrei Frumusanu on 4/7/2020
CES 2020: Ambarella Showcases CV2, CV22 and CV25 Demos
Amongst the many showcases at CES 2020 was Ambarella’s newest demo line-up showcasing various solutions using the CV2, CV22 and also demonstrating new platforms based on the newly announced...
13 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/16/2020
NVIDIA Details DRIVE AGX Orin: A Herculean Arm Automotive SoC For 2022
While NVIDIA’s SoC efforts haven’t gone entirely to plan since the company first started on them over a decade ago, NVIDIA has been able to find a niche that...
32 by Ryan Smith on 12/18/2019
Kioxia Expands Automotive Grade eUFS Lineup: 512 GB for Extreme Conditions
Kioxia (formerly Toshiba Memory), has expanded its lineup of embedded UFS (eUFS) storage with a 512 GB device based on the company’s BiCS 3D NAND flash. The chip is...
3 by Anton Shilov on 11/15/2019
Samsung & TSMC Develop 8nm & 7nm Automotive-Grade Nodes
As vehicles are getting ‘smarter’ and gaining autopilot capabilities, it is easy to predict that the demand for higher-performing and more complex automotive SoCs will be growing rapidly in...
29 by Anton Shilov on 10/14/2019
Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Tesla Solution for Full Self Driving
The first talk being live blogged at Hot Chips today is from Tesla, who are showing off their compute and redundancy solution for a fully-self driving car. We assume...
3 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/20/2019
Marvell to Acquire Aquantia, Eying Automotive Networking Market
Marvell on Monday announced that it had reached an agreement to buy the networking specialist firm Aquantia for $452 million. The acquisition will allow Marvell to significantly augment their...
21 by Anton Shilov on 5/6/2019
BlackBerry Acquires Cylance, Gets AI & ML Security Technology
BlackBerry Limited has announced that it had completed acquisition of Cylance, a company developing machine learning and artificial intelligence-based security technology. The move adds valuable IP and technologies to...
11 by Anton Shilov on 2/25/2019
GlobalFoundries and Synopsys Develop Automotive-Grade IP for 22FDX Process Tech
GloalFoundries and Synopsys announced this week that they have jointly developed a portfolio of automotive-gade IP solutions for GF’s 22FDX process technology. The various IP blocks are designed for...
4 by Anton Shilov on 2/22/2019
Investigating NVIDIA's Jetson AGX: A Look at Xavier and Its Carmel Cores
Today’s piece is a bit of an unusual review; NVIDIA’s new Jetson AGX embedded system kit isn’t really a device platform we’re expecting the average reader to think about...
51 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/4/2019
Samsung’s Intros Exynos Auto V9 SoC: Octa-A76 Chip to Power Audi’s In-Vehicle Infotainment System
Samsung today rolled out its new Exynos Auto V9 SoC, announcing that the automotive-focused SoC will power Audi’s in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) system that will debut by 2021. Samsung’s first...
17 by Anton Shilov on 1/3/2019
Arm Announces Cortex-A65AE for Automotive: First SMT CPU Core
Back in September, Arm had announced the new Cortex A76AE CPU with focus on automotive applications. Today, Arm adds to its portfolio by formally announcing a next gen processor...
8 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/18/2018
Imagination Launches PowerVR Automotive Initiative, 8XT-A GPU IP
The automotive industry is changing rapidly these days thanks to the influx of computing poweer, and it will continue to consume considerably more CPU and GPU horsepower in the...
2 by Anton Shilov on 11/13/2018
Arm Unveils Arm Safety Ready Initiative, Cortex-A76AE Processor
The market of automobiles is changing. Modern cars use more electronics than ever and adoption of electronic components in general and processors in particular is not going to slow...
27 by Anton Shilov on 9/26/2018
Hot Chips 2018: NVIDIA Xavier SoC Live Blog (5pm PT, Midnight UTC)
NVIDIA has a couple of talks during Hot Chips, with this first one going into the Xavier SoC.
5 by Ian Cutress on 8/20/2018
Solving the Automotive Bandwidth Problem: Aquantia Partners with NVIDIA for 10GbE
One of the lesser known topics around fully autonomous vehicles is one of transporting data around. There are usually two options: transport raw image and sensor data with super...
25 by Ian Cutress on 1/29/2018
Micron, Rambus, & Others Team Up To Spur GDDR6 Adoption in Non-GPU Products
For regular AnandTech readers, the drums of GDDR6 have been beating loudly for most of the last year now. The new memory standard replaces the venerable GDDR5 memory, which...
15 by Ryan Smith on 1/23/2018
Ambarella at CES 2018: Announcing CV1 and CV22 SoCs with CVflow CNN engines
At CES 2018 in Las Vegas we had the pleasure to attend Ambarella’s booth tour demonstrating the newest products in camera SoC solutions. Ambarella to date is most widely...
9 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/15/2018
Cypress at CES 2018 - CYW89359 Automotive 802.11ac Combo Solution
LAS VEGAS, NV — Cypress Semiconductor today announces a new WiFi combo chipset targeted at automotive applications. Car connectivity gets increasingly common-place and users enjoy the same media experience...
1 by Andrei Frumusanu on 1/9/2018
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