Volvo Cars doesn’t focus on technology for the sake of technology. It develops human-centric technology that creates value and makes cars safer and life better without compromising on safety.
Volvo Cars’ software-defined cars are vital to this ambition, bringing next-generation safety, connectivity, data, and software together in one product. Volvo Cars‘ technology roadmap guides the company, balancing in-house development and intelligent partnerships with global tech leaders to work with both speed and the latest, cutting-edge technology.
The new Volvo EX90 is the first Volvo car to be genuinely software-defined. It’s built on a centralised core computing architecture made possible through Volvo Cars’ long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA. The EX90’s industry-leading core computing system is powered by an NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC) capable of over 250 trillion operations per second (TOPS).
This core compute system orchestrates everything in the car, from powering the deep learning capabilities underpinning our AI-based active safety and driving assistance systems to helping introduce safe autonomous driving in the future and delivering a best-in-class customer experience.
To help unleash the full potential of Volvo Cars’ software-defined car with a centralised core compute architecture, the company is taking its collaboration with NVIDIA to the next level. Later this decade, Volvo Cars will introduce cars built on NVIDIA DRIVE Thor, capable of up to 1,000 TOPs. That’s four times as many operations per second as one DRIVE Orin SoC while offering seven times greater energy efficiency.
Integrating DRIVE Thor will help further future-proof Volvo Cars’ next generation of cars. By incorporating the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture, DRIVE Thor will enable the company to deploy even more advanced driving assistance and safety features, develop autonomous driving, and introduce generative AI-based capabilities and in-car experiences.
To further explore AI’s potential, Volvo Cars, through its fully owned software company, Zenseact, is also using the NVIDIA DGX systems—an AI supercomputing platform optimised for large workloads—to help develop safe autonomous driving.
The DGX systems for AI model training will be used before being deployed to Volvo Cars’ future fleets on the road. With the power of the NVIDIA DGX platform—utilising its purpose-built AI infrastructure and optimised software stack—Volvo Cars can enhance the efficiency of training both current and future AI models.
Volvo Cars‘ long-standing collaboration with NVIDIA and its use of the production-proven NVIDIA DRIVE platform has enabled the company to explore further and apply its deep understanding of safety as it trains large foundation AI models. These models help the company’s cars understand the world around them even better, intending to improve safety and convenience in their cars further and develop autonomous driving.
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