At the June 27th Ludwigsburg Automotive Electronics Conference, US chip maker NVIDIA announced a partnership with Volvo and its supplier, Autoliv, for the autopilot computer business. The two sides hope that this cooperation can speed up the development of vehicle-mounted computer chips, and plans to use the chip for commercial self-driving car in 2021.

The cooperation with Volvo is based on the previous two companies in the S90 models on the cooperation. The models are equipped with a steering assist system manufactured by NVIDIA, enabling semi-automatic driving at high speeds.

At the same time, the company said that the search partners will not be limited to Volvo, and said the German auto parts supply company ZF Friedrichshafen AG company and automotive lighting technology company Hella reached a cooperation.

NVIDIA was committed to the development of programmable graphics processing technology. But in recent years began to focus on automatic driving areas. In 2015, NVIDIA has launched the Drive PX for autopilot at the Consumer Electronics Show. In 2016, at the GTC Europe conference, NVIDIA also introduced the Xavier product and electronic chips.

The industry believes that NVIDIA recently a series of actions show its intention to follow the rival Intel, a large-scale into the field of automatic driving. Intel recently acquired Mobileye, which focuses on the computer industry's computer vision algorithms and driving support systems for chip technology research. You may interested on: RF/IF and RFID and Audio Products