NVIDIA has just announced that their DRIVE Thor platform, the successor to DRIVE Orin, will integrate the new NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. The new Blackwell architecture is designed to be optimized for transformer, LLM and generative AI workloads, which are now common in the advanced automotive industry.
First introduced in September 2022, the DRIVE Thor platform was supposed to be running with the NVIDIA Hopper Multi-Instance GPU architecture, together with a Grace CPU and Ada Lovelace GPU. It seems like the units of DRIVE Thor are going to be equipped with Blackwell instead.
DRIVE Thor unifies intelligent functions within a vehicle. This includes automated and assisted driving, parking, driver and occupant monitoring, digital instrument cluster, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and rear-seat entertainment. This can all be achieved within a single architecture for greater efficiency and lower overall system cost.
DRIVE Thor has also garnered the support of many leading companies across the transportation sector. BYD, Hyper, Li Auto, ZEEKR, XPENG, Plus, Nuro, Waabi and WeRide adopt DRIVE Thor platform, and have all announced that they are building their future vehicle roadmap on DRIVE Thor.
