{"id":20451,"date":"2016-01-05T06:49:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T14:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/nvidia-announces-a-supercomputer-gpu-and-deep-learning-platform-for-self-driving-cars"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:23:24","slug":"nvidia-announces-a-supercomputer-gpu-and-deep-learning-platform-for-self-driving-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/nvidia-announces-a-supercomputer-gpu-and-deep-learning-platform-for-self-driving-cars","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia announces a \u2018supercomputer\u2019 GPU and deep-learning platform for self-driving cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nvidia-announces-a-supercomputer-gpu-and-deep-learning-platform-for-self-driving-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nvidia took pretty much everyone by surprise when it announced it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/object\/drive-cx.html\" target=\"_blank\">getting into self-driving cars;<\/a> it\u2019s just not what you expect from a company that\u2019s made its name off selling graphics cards for gamers.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s CES, it\u2019s taking the focus on autonomous cars even further.<\/p>\n<p>The company today announced the Nvidia Drive PX2. According to CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, it\u2019s basically a supercomputer for your car. Hardware-wise, it\u2019s made up of 12 CPU cores and four GPUs, all liquid-cooled. That amounts to about 8 teraflops of processing power, is as powerful as 6 Titan X graphics cards, and compares to \u2018about 150 MacBook Pros\u2019 for self-driving applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/gadgets\/2016\/01\/05\/nvidia-announces-a-supercomputer-gpu-and-deep-learning-platform-for-self-driving-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia took pretty much everyone by surprise when it announced it was getting into self-driving cars; it\u2019s just not what you expect from a company that\u2019s made its name off selling graphics cards for gamers. At this year\u2019s CES, it\u2019s taking the focus on autonomous cars even further. The company today announced the Nvidia Drive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,6,44,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56590,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions\/56590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}