NVIDIA just unveiled a chip to power fully self-driving trucks and robot taxis

Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world's largest mail and logistics company, and ZF, a top automotive parts supplier, plan to deploy a fleet of autonomous delivery trucks based on the new chips, starting in 2019, NVIDIA said. The third generation of NVIDIA's Drive PX automotive line, code-named Pegasus, are chips the size of car license plates with datacenter-class processing power. They can handle 320 trillion operations per second, representing roughly a 13-fold increase over the calculating power of the current PX 2 class. This dramatic improvement is a pre-condition for developing and testing future autonomous cars, experts said. "NVIDIA is one step ahead. But you can be sure you can expect (rival chipmakers) Intel, NXP and Bosch not to be too far behind," said Luca De Ambroggi, principal automotive electronics analyst with industry market research firm IHS Markit.