Nvidia announces its New AI Computer Chip that supports fully autonomous functions of a car!

Nvidia is a graphics chip maker known for providing exceptional graphics for equally amazing video games. While, Nvidia is still engaged in the graphic chip business and have new graphics processing unit (GPU) coming out in 2018, it has also spread out in new and emerging markets.
One of their new ventures is in the autonomous vehicles market.
At the GPU Tech Conference held in Munich, the chipmaker announced that it had developed world’s first Computer Chip that could provide all the artificial intelligence required for a car to drive on its own; a fully autonomous car.
The chipset is named “Pegasus”, after the Greek mythological winged horse. It will be launched in the latter half on 2018Nvidia Pegasus: AI computing system that supports fully autonomous cars.

What does the Nvidia Pegasus chip do?

Nvidia claims that the chip is capable of supporting the millions of intricate computing operations a fully autonomous vehicle ha stop carry out. It claims that the Pegasus supports a fully autonomous, Level 5 car.
A Level-5 autonomous car is a fully self-driving vehicle. It requires no inputs or intervention from a human driver in any driving scenarios.
It literally means a car sans a driver and also without any traditional driving paraphernalia like the steering wheel, mirrors, pedals, etc.
Such vehicles will be empowered by an army of sharp sensors, powerful cameras that will absorb all the surrounding data and feed it to the computing system in the car to drive own its own, safely. To do all this in a lightning speed and accuracy the computing system has to carry out millions of operations at a time and Nvidia claims that it’s Pegasus is capable of performing 320 trillions of operations in a second and much more.
The chip is a path of the Nvidia Drive PX platform, the system that is used in an autonomous car to analyze all the data generated. With the help of all the information feed by the camera and sensors, the platform develops a 360 picture of the surrounding and drive the car safely.
Thus, Nvidia says that it’s Pegasus can support such a fully autonomous car.
The AI computing systems that are currently used consume a lot of power and are too big in size. Whereas, the Pegasus comes in the size of a license plate and are energy-efficient consuming less power.