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NVIDIA Announces World's First Functionally Safe AI Self-Driving PlatformLAS VEGAS, Jan. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CES -- NVIDIA today unveiled details of its functional safety architecture for NVIDIA DRIVE™, its AI autonomous vehicle platform, which uses redundant and diverse functions to enable vehicles to operate safely, even in the event of faults related to the operator, environment or systems. The NVIDIA DRIVE architecture enables automakers to build and deploy self-driving cars and trucks that are functionally safe and can be certified to international safety standards, such as ISO 26262. “Safety is the most important feature of a self-driving car,” said Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA. “It is imperative that it operate safely, even when things go wrong. NVIDIA’s investment into this functional safety platform is one of the most important ones we’ve ever made, and it provides a critical ingredient for automakers to bring self-driving cars to market.” NVIDIA DRIVE provides a holistic safety platform that includes process, technologies and simulation systems, as described below:
“The deep learning capabilities that NVIDIA provides combined with BlackBerry QNX’s safety- critical real-time operating system are exactly what automakers want and need,” said John Chen, executive chairman and CEO, BlackBerry. “Our partnership with NVIDIA will provide the automotive industry with a functionally safe AI self-driving platform that is secured to the highest standards.” “We are excited to team up with NVIDIA, the leader in automotive AI technologies, and to contribute our series-proven safety software framework MotionWise for autonomous systems in close partnership with our joint customers,” said Georg Kopetz, CEO of TTTech. “This strategic world-class partnership will jointly bring a complete solution fast to market, ready for the high safety and security requirements for Level 2 to Level 5 – fully fail-operational autonomous systems.” Keep Current on NVIDIA About NVIDIA Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, performance, goals and abilities of NVIDIA DRIVE and its functional safety architecture; NVIDIA’s investment to develop functional safety rigor into the NVIDIA DRIVE platform and its impact and benefit on the production of self-driving cars; and NVIDIA DRIVE’s architecture integrating technology from BlackBerry and TTTech to enable the development of self-driving vehicles and the benefits, impact and abilities of such integration are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic conditions; our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test our products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market acceptance of our products or our partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended October 29, 2017. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances. © 2018 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, NVIDIA DRIVE and Xavier are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. BlackBerry, QNX and related trademarks, names and logos are the property of BlackBerry Limited and are registered and/or used in the U.S. and countries around the world. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice. For further information, contact: |