I'm starting to think there might be something to this robotaxi stuff.
From CNBC, January 5:
- Nvidia on Monday unveiled plans to launch a robotaxi service with a partner as soon as 2027, highlighting the chipmaker’s ambition to become a major player in the world of self-driving cars.
- The service would be offered with a partner, and would employ cars with “Level 4” driving, meaning they’d be capable of driving without human intervention in pre-defined regions.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that robotics — including self-driving cars — is the company’s second most important growth category after AI.
Nvidia on Monday unveiled plans to test a robotaxi service with a partner as soon as 2027, highlighting the chipmaker’s ambition to become a major player in the world of self-driving cars.
The service would be offered with a partner, and would employ cars with “Level 4” driving, meaning they will be capable of driving without human intervention in pre-defined regions, Nvidia officials said at a self-driving demonstration in San Francisco last month. The company declined to name where it would operate and who its partner will be.
“We will probably start with a limited availability but work with the partner for us to get our footing,” Xinzhou Wu, Nvidia’s vice president of automotive, said at the event.
Since 2015, Nvidia has offered chips and other technology for cars under the brand name Drive, but that remains a small part of the company’s business. Automotive and robotics chips accounted for just $592 million in sales in the quarter ended in October, or about 1% of Nvidia’s total revenue. Nvidia announced a robotaxi partnership with Uber in October.
The chipmaker said in December that it had developed software that can power a self-driving car, and that Mercedes-Benz models to be released in late 2026 will be able to use Nvidia’s technology to navigate cities like San Francisco....
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Previously:
May 2015 - Nvidia Wants to Be the Brains Of Your Autonomous Car (NVDA)
And a few hundred other posts in-between these two bookends.
A couple of the funnier ones:
September 2017 - NVIDIA Partner Tesla Reportedly Developing Chip With AMD (TSLA; NVDA; AMD)
Today in leveraged WTFs....August 2018 - "Nvidia CEO is 'more than happy to help' if Tesla's A.I. chip doesn't pan out" (NVDA; TSLA)
