Porsche To Work With Tech Company Nvidia On Autonomous Vehicle AI
Porsche takes another step toward the future of the automobile with its new tech partner, Nvidia. The Santa Clara-based company made its name through revolutionary computer technology, and now, they are helping Porsche develop a smarter way to program autonomous driving technology.
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Nvidia is a tech company specializing in computer graphics, which is now teaming up with Porsche to research and develop the future relationship between artificial intelligence and autonomous cars.
The GPU or “graphics processing unit” is a Nvidia product that rapidly interfaces with a computers’ memory in order to accelerate the creation of images on a computer or processing unit. Nvidia’s GPU technology gained traction in the early 2000s and sent the company soaring to unheard-of success. According to Porsche, by the turn of the millennium, Nvidia had made over $3 billion.