Lenovo unveils new vehicle computing products with Nvidia DRIVE

Lenovo has unveiled three new products that use Nvidia DRIVE Thor AI for their vehicle computing vertical. The tech giant introduced Lenovo XH1, which is a central computing unit for ADAS and smart cockpit, Lenovo AD1, a level 4 autonomous driving domain controller unit, and Lenovo AH1, an ADAS domain controller.

The Vehicle Computing roadmap was showcased at the ‘AI for All’ event that was held last week in Austin. During this event, Lenovo also showed a demo of an intelligent virtual assistant, which will be a part of the Lenovo XH1, the central compute unit. Programmed to respond like a real human assistant, this virtual assitant understands the preferences of the driver and passengers and even predicts their requirements.

The products are based on the Nvidia DRIVE Thor, which is a centralized car computer with advanced AI capabilities that can deliver safe and intelligent driving. The system was used in various NVIDIA architectures, including Ada Lovelace for greater efficiency and lower system costs.

Earlier this year, Lenovo had announced a collaboration with NVIDIA, and at that time, the tech giant also mentioned that it would be supplier of automotive intelligent controllers using NVIDIA DRIVE. In addition to the controllers, Lenovo is also looking to enhance its automotive systems using cloud, edge, AI, devices, and networking. 

Last week, Lenovo announced ThinkStation P8 based on AMD's Threadripper CPU that can accomodate up to three Nvidia RTX 6000 GPUs. This comes after the success of the ThinkStation P620 (curr. US$1,959.19 on Amazon) that also uses the Threadripper processor.