Newest Nvidia AV SoC boasts '7x Xavier Performance'

At the company's GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Suzhou, China, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took to the stage to introduce Drive AGX Orin, the next generation SoC in the company's automotive portfolio. Orin follows Drive AGX Xavier, launched just under 2 years ago at CES 2018. Xavier is Nvidia's current flagship SoC for AI acceleration in vehicles. Orin, at 17 billion transistors, is almost double the size of Xavier, which had 9 billion, and it offers nearly 7x the performance (200 TOPS for INT8 data). Despite its size, Orin also offers 3x the power efficiency of Xavier, the company said.