Lucid Motors announced on Tuesday that Nvidia’s auto-grade computer chips will be used in vehicles to provide advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving capabilities. The current and future lineup of automakers will be built on Nvidia’s end-to-end Drive Hyperion platform.
Hyperion is the latest version of Nvidia’s drive platform that allows automakers to customize their own driving capabilities. Orin is also a chip maker’s system-on-chip, similar to Tesla’s fully autonomous driving chip and Intel’s Mobileye EyeQ. The two companies say the new hardware will form the basis for a new set of driving functions such as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), automatic parking and autonomous driving.
Hyperion is the latest version of Nvidia’s drive platform.
Lucid released its first EV, Lucid Air, last year and is already working on follow-up. Codenamed Project Gravity is a long-range electric SUV. Lucid recently said it has postponed the launch of the Gravity SUV until 2024 due to supply chain disruptions and a global chip shortage.
The higher trim levels of Lucid Air, Dream Edition and Grand Touring come with the car maker DreamDrive Pro ADAS, which includes 14 cameras, 5 radars, 12 ultrasound and LIDAR sensors. increase. It may at some point in the future serve as the basis for conditional hands-free driving capabilities.
Lucid is the latest car company with a contract with Nvidia. San Jose-based chip makers have made a full-scale entry into the automotive industry in recent years, including partnerships with Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, TuSimple, Cruise, Zoox, and numerous Chinese EV startups.