Prominent auto-industry suppliers Nvidia and Bosch are working together to bring artificial-intelligence advances to millions of vehicles. The Silicon Valley chipmaker and the German supplier have provided fresh details on their months-old partnership, with both companies signaling the intent to build self-driving systems that use next-generation artificial intelligence.
These systems will be sold to automakers for use in mass-market autonomous vehicles. Although neither company committed to a specific timeline, both Bosch and Nvidia expect to have a market-ready product early in the 2020s. The announcement was made in Berlin at Bosch ConnectedWorld, the company’s annual conference dedicated to exploring the Internet of Things.

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?We?ve really supercharged our road map
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“Bosch is advancing automated driving on all technological fronts,” said Volkmar Denner, the company?s global CEO. “We aim to assume a leading role in the field of artificial intelligence, too.”
To do that, Bosch will rely on Nvidia, which specializes in the development of deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence that, for the purpose of self-driving vehicles, largely allows systems to learn from their previous decisions rather than follow sets of human-coded instructions.
The collaboration with Bosch will utilize Nvidia?s latest Drive PX platform, and it will incorporate the company?s Xavier system on a chip...