Nvidia's AGX Xavier Helps Devs Build New Autonomous Machines

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Fast-growing chipmaker Nvidia demonstrated its new Xavier Module to media members and others here at company headquarters on Dec. 12. The event also featured dozens of developers already building systems using Nvidia's Jetson AGX Xavier developer kit. The Xavier Module is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, yet it delivers what Nvidia calls "workstation performance" with very low-energy consumption (as little as 10 watts) in the range of what a clock radio requires. Developers can use the module to power a new generation of intelligent robots and other autonomous devices. "It's built to be an AI [artificial intelligence] server in a small form factor," Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager of Autonomous Machines at Nvidia, said at the demonstration.