Friday, October 07, 2016

Nvidia SoC for Self-Driving Cars

Nvidia Unveils System on a Chip for Self-Driving Cars | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

"...self-driving cars need lots of computing power. So the GPU giant today unveiled Xavier, its latest supercomputer for autonomous vehicles.
Xavier is a system on a chip (SoC), complete with a GPU, a custom eight-core CPU architecture, and a new computer vision accelerator. The processor can crunch through 20 trillion operations per second while consuming only 20 watts of power."

Nvidia Xavier

AI: Samsung += Viv

Samsung Electronics to acquire artificial intelligence firm Viv, run by Siri co-creator | Reuters

"Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Thursday it is acquiring U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) platform developer Viv Labs Inc, a firm run by a co-creator of Apple Inc's Siri voice assistant program.

Samsung said in a statement it plans to integrate the San Jose-based company's AI platform, called Viv, into the Galaxy smartphones and expand voice-assistant services to home appliances and wearable technology devices."