Foxconn to build self-driving vehicle platforms with Nvidia chips

Chipmaker Nvidia and electronics manufacturer Foxconn announced a partnership to develop autonomous vehicle platforms. The chipmaker said the tie-up will allow it to scale efforts to meet growing demand for chips made for autonomous and connected vehicles.

Foxconn will manufacture electronic control units (ECUs) for cars based on Nvidia’s DRIVE Orin chip specifically made for computing in connected and autonomous vehicles. The ECUs will serve the global automotive market.

Foxconn said its vehicles will contain ECUs based on DRIVE Orin and Nvidia’s DRIVE Hyperion sensors for autonomous driving. The company said it hopes to eventually make cars for Tesla as it ramps up electric vehicle manufacturing to diversify its business.

With companies struggling to bring products to develop electric and autonomous cars to the market in recent years as they grapple with rising costs and difficulties in ramping up production, Nvidia’s technology, which includes chips to process information from sensors in real time, is said to help Foxconn overcome some of those challenges.