Complex SoC Aims to Power Fully Autonomous Self-Driving Cars

摘要

Nvidia has received the first working silicon of Xavier, its next-generation autonomous-driving SoC. The 350mm~2 die integrates nine billion transistors and includes eight of the Companys new Carmel CPUs, a Volta GPU, two deeplearning accelerators (DLAs), and a programmable vision accelerator (PVA). Nvidia first disclosed in 3Q16 development of the 12nm chip, but in January, it demonstrated the first working samples from a TSMC process. It plans to begin sampling Xavier to its lead automotive customers this quarter and to enter full production by the end of 2018. This new schedule is a one-quarter slip from the original plan, but it remains at least three quarters ahead of Intel/ Mobileye5S next-generation system.