Nvidia And Bosch Teaming Up To Make Computer Brains For Automated Cars

An automated test vehicle equipped with Bosch technology. On the heels of Intel's $15.3 billion plan to buy computer vision powerhouse Mobileye to lock in a big piece of the automated car tech market, Nvidia and Bosch are teaming up to make an AI-enabled computer that can be mass-produced to serve as the brains for driverless vehicles. The Silicon Valley maker of graphics processors and its new German partner, which ranks among the world's largest auto parts makers, will develop a computer that utilizes Nvidia's deep learning software and Drive PX processor, Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner announced at Bosch's ConnectedWorld conference in Berlin. Financial details for the project weren't included in their statement, and Nvidia and Bosch both declined to elaborate. "Bosch will build automotive-grade systems for the mass production of autonomous cars," Nvidia CEO and founder Jen-Hsun Huang said in the statement.