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Guru3D.com » News » NVIDIA introduces Xavier SoC based on Volta - for Autonomous Transportation

NVIDIA introduces Xavier SoC based on Volta - for Autonomous Transportation

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 09/28/2016 04:06 PM | source: | 7 comment(s)
NVIDIA introduces Xavier SoC based on Volta - for Autonomous Transportation

Xavier is a complete system-on-chip (SoC) based on ARM, integrating a new GPU architecture called Volta (successor to Pascal), a custom 8 core CPU architecture, and a new computer vision accelerator. You could look at the SoC as next-gen Tegra. 

The processor will deliver 20 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of performance, while consuming only 20 watts of power. As the brain of a self-driving car, Xavier is designed to be compliant with critical automotive standards, such as the ISO 26262 functional safety specification. The processor will house 8 ARM cores. On the graphics side of things, a Volta generation implementation is injected and it will get 512 shader processor cores. On Volta architecture however nothing really is known. 

Packed with 7 billion transistors, and manufactured using 16nm FinFET process technology, a single Xavier AI processor will be able to replace today’s DRIVE PX 2 configured with dual mobile SoCs and dual discrete GPUs — at a fraction of the power consumption.
  

 

  
  Xavier (Volta) Parker (Pascal) Tegra X1 (Maxwell)
Processor 8 cores
NVIDIA Custom ARM64
2x NVIDIA Denver +
4x ARM Cortex-A57
4x ARM Cortex-A57 +
4x ARM Cortex-A53
Shader processors 512 256 256
Memory type /bus N/A LPDDR4, 128-bit Bus LPDDR3, 64-bit Bus
Video Processing 8K Encode
8K Decode
HDR
4K Decode
4KEncode
4K Decode
4K Encode
Transistors 7B N/A N/A
Fab Process TSMC 16nm FinFET+ TSMC 16nm FinFET+ TSMC 20nm Planar

 
Because autonomous driving is an incredibly compute-intense process, the need for an efficient AI processor is paramount. Xavier will bring self-driving car technology to automakers, tier 1 suppliers, startups and R&D organizations that are building autonomous vehicles, whether cars, trucks, shuttles or taxis. Xavier samples will be available the fourth quarter of 2017 to automakers, tier 1 suppliers, startups and research institutions who are developing self-driving cars.

To be continued, in a far away future as you are looking at the 2018 timeframe for the initial products to hit the market. Interesting sidenote, Nvidia announced a deal with TomTom. Keep that one in mind.



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#5339599 Posted on: 09/28/2016 05:48 PM
"You might not know this kids but not long ago, people were driving using their ... hands!"
"No, not like that!"



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#5339619 Posted on: 09/28/2016 06:29 PM
Really hope we'll see nvidia's GPUs in other SoCs when 4k smartphones hit next year - mali g72 won't be enough for 4k and VR.

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#5339676 Posted on: 09/28/2016 08:12 PM
Just need to sort the fuel situation out like this;



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#5339694 Posted on: 09/28/2016 08:49 PM
First bit of Volta news :D
Should hear something about GV100 next year.

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#5339709 Posted on: 09/28/2016 09:20 PM
"You might not know this kids but not long ago, people were driving using their ... hands!"





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#5339734 Posted on: 09/28/2016 10:51 PM
mostly off topic but was nice to reminisce.. as you were.. :)

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#5339865 Posted on: 09/29/2016 10:41 AM
From VCZ:
Am I seeing this right, XAVIER has two GPCs with 256 CUDA cores each? That would be twice as many as Pascal per GPC.
Pretty interesting if it is.

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