NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor.
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Nvidia introduced Monday that its newest robotics chip module, the Jetson AGX Thor, is now on sale for $3,499 as a developer equipment.
The corporate calls the chip a “robotic mind.” The primary kits ship subsequent month, Nvidia stated final week, and the chips will permit clients to create robots.
After an organization makes use of the developer equipment to prototype their robotic, Nvidia will promote Thor T5000 modules that may be put in in production-ready robots. If an organization wants greater than 1,000 Thor chips, Nvidia will cost $2,999 per module.
CEO Jensen Huang has stated robotics is the corporate’s largest development alternative outside of artificial intelligence, which has led to Nvidia’s general gross sales greater than tripling prior to now two years.
“We don’t construct robots, we don’t construct automobiles, however we allow the entire business with our infrastructure computer systems and the related software program,” stated Deepu Talla, Nvidia’s vice chairman of robotics and edge AI, on a name with reporters Friday.
The Jetson Thor chips are based mostly on a Blackwell graphics processor, which is Nvidia’s present technology of expertise utilized in its AI chips, in addition to its chips for pc video games.
Nvidia stated that its Jetson Thor chips are 7.5 instances sooner than its earlier technology. That enables them to run generative AI fashions, together with giant language fashions and visible fashions that may interpret the world round them, which is important for humanoid robots, Nvidia stated. The Jetson Thor chips are outfitted with 128GB of reminiscence, which is important for large AI fashions.
Corporations together with Agility Robotics, Amazon, Meta and Boston Dynamics are utilizing its Jetson chips, Nvidia stated. Nvidia has additionally invested in robotics corporations reminiscent of Discipline AI.
Nevertheless, robotics stays a small enterprise for Nvidia, accounting for about 1% of the corporate’s whole income, even supposing it has launched a number of new robotic chips since 2014. Nevertheless it’s rising quick.
Nvidia just lately mixed its enterprise items to group its automotive and robotics divisions into the identical line merchandise. That unit reported $567 million in quarterly gross sales in Might, which represented a 72% improve on an annual foundation.
The corporate stated its Jetson Thor chips can be utilized for self-driving automobiles as properly, particularly from Chinese language manufacturers. Nvidia calls its automobile chips Drive AGX, and whereas they’re just like its robotics chips, they run an working system known as Drive OS that is been tuned for automotive functions.
