UPower partners with NVIDIA to launch industry-first open automotive supercomputing platform

Beijing (Gasgoo)- On March 23rd, China’s skateboard chassis developer UPower announced its partnership with NVIDIA. With the help of NVIDIA, UPower will build the world’s first open automotive supercomputing platform with flexible computing power.

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Specifically, UPower will adopt the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion AV platform architecture to build its own HPVC (High Performance Vehicle Computer) on its UP Super Chassis. By integrating the systematic chip of NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, the said HPVC will be the first of its kind throughout the industry.

The UP Super Chassis is an improved skateboard chassis, functioning as a traditional body in white. It is integrated and iterative, working independently with various intelligent software/hardware capabilities, including sensor integration and computing. According to UPower, the UP Super Chassis is developed under the same criteria of traditional luxury vehicle models, such as the BMW 5 series and the Mercedes-Benz E series.

In accordance with its unique features, an HPVC acts an important role to the UP Super Chassis. The HPVC acts as the chassis’ core module for intelligent driving. It is pluggable, flexible with chips in quantitative terms, and has a computing power of over 1000TOPS. The HPVC allows high expandability of computing power, satisfying different autonomous driving needs from L2 to L4.  

The partnership with NVIDIA will further expand UPower’s product quality and capability.