Mercedes-Benz Cars to Be Built on Nvidia Autonomous Driving Platform From 2024

The partnership followed Daimler's move last week to pause a development alliance with rival German luxury carmaker BMW in the area of self driving.

By Reuters | Updated: 24 June 2020 19:35 IST

Mercedes-Benz Cars to Be Built on Nvidia Autonomous Driving Platform From 2024

Mercedes-Benz had been working with BMW for its autonomous driving efforts

Highlights

Nvidia will provide Mercedes-Benz with a chip and software platform
The new partnership followed Daimler's move to end partnership with BMW
Nvidia Drive AGX Orin Platform would be standard in Mercedes-Benz cars

Semiconductor maker Nvidia said on Tuesday it struck a deal with Germany's Daimler Mercedes-Benz to provide cars produced from 2024 with a chip and software platform that can eventually be used for autonomous driving functions.

“We intend to join forces to create a software-defined vehicle and deploy this across the entire next generation's fleet,” Nvidia Senior Director of Automotive Danny Shapiro told reporters.

Shapiro declined to disclose the financial terms of the deal. The deal covers chips and software for the vehicle system.

The new partnership followed Daimler's move last week to pause a development alliance with rival German luxury carmaker BMW in the area of automated driving.

Shapiro said the high-end Nvidia Drive AGX Orin Platform - an autonomous vehicle processor - would be standard in every Mercedes-Benz vehicle. With that in place, consumers will be able to update the car's software the way smartphones are updated today.

Asked how the Mercedes-Benz partnership will affect Nvidia's decade-long collaboration with Audi AG, Shapiro said neither arrangement was exclusive. With Mercedes-Benz there is “a huge dedication, huge energy, huge investment from both companies to bring this to market,” he said.

Mercedes-Benz sold 2.39 million cars worldwide in 2019. The two companies have been working together on autonomous driving and artificial intelligence car technology for over five years.

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