Nvidia Drive Thor will have a performance of 2000 TOPS
At the 2024 GTC AI Conference, Nvidia announced that major Chinese automakers, including BYD, GAC Aion Hyper and Xpeng, will use the Drive Thor chip for their future cars. Nvidia introduced Drive Thor back on September 20, 2022, positioning it as a successor to Drive Orin and targeting 2025 models.
Drive Thor is primarily designed for next-generation L4 autonomous driving, driver assistance, occupant monitoring, parking functions and in-car entertainment. The latest Nvidia Drive Thor chip will have 2000 TOPS performance, vastly surpassing the current generation Nvidia Drive Orin chip with performance 254 TOPS.
The collaboration between BYD and Nvidia began in March last year. It was only about creating smart cars based on the Nvidia Drive Orin platform. Nvidia's 2024 GTC AI conference further strengthens this partnership. All future BYD electric vehicles will be equipped with the Drive Thor chip, which improves the autonomous driving of BYD vehicles.
Nvidia and GAC Aion Hyper announced their partnership at the Nvidia GTC AI Conference 2024. Hyper's next-generation L4 self-driving car will be powered by the Nvidia Drive Thor chip and scheduled for production in 2025.
Nvidia reported that Xpeng has also confirmed the use of the Nvidia Drive Thor platform as the central artificial intelligence system for its future generation of electric vehicles. Modern Xpeng cars use Nvidia Drive Orin chips.
It's worth adding that Qualcomm will also launch its 2000 TOPS automotive chip called Snapdragon Ride Flex. One of the first Chinese manufacturers to use this chip was FAW Hongqi.