DETROIT — Volvo Automobiles will use a brand new technology of high-powered chips from Nvidia to allow extra autonomous driving capabilities in future autos, beginning subsequent yr.

Volvo is amongst a crowd of latest and established automakers placing digital processing energy forward of horsepower as they attempt to meet up with Tesla.

Tesla has taken the lead in software-driven options and practical functionality partly by equipping its vehicles and SUVs with highly effective, and costly, on-board computer systems that may handle advanced duties akin to automated driving, and be upgraded over the air.

For Nvidia, the Volvo settlement, the same take care of electrical car startup Faraday Future, and different agreements anticipated within the coming weeks mark a reboot of growth for the California-based gaming and knowledge middle processor firm’s automotive enterprise.

“Nvidia’s pipeline of automotive orders has grown into the numerous billions of {dollars},” Danny Shapiro, Nvidia’s senior director of automotive, informed reporters on Monday. Income for the corporate’s automotive enterprise fell 23 p.c in 2020.

Volvo Automobiles, owned by China’s Geely Holding, mentioned it can use Nvidia’s new Drive Orin system, with way more processing energy than current Nvidia chips used in Volvo vehicles, beginning with a brand new technology XC90 crossover as a result of launch subsequent yr.

In a nod to Tesla, Volvo mentioned autos geared up with the brand new Nvidia Orin programs can be “hardware-ready” for autonomous driving options akin to a “Freeway Pilot” characteristic that can be activated by way of a software program obtain “when it’s verified to be secure for particular person geographic areas and circumstances.”

Faraday Future mentioned it can provide autonomous driving, parking and a “summon” characteristic in its FF 91 mannequin due out in 2022. Tesla already presents a “summon” system that permits a automotive to navigate by a parking zone on the proprietor’s distant command.

Rival automakers together with Daimler and a number of other Chinese language electrical car startups are taking the same method.

Nvidia additionally mentioned Monday it’s growing a brand new on-board laptop system on a chip referred to as Atlan that can give a automotive the computing energy at the moment present in an information middle. This chip must be prepared for 2025 fashions, Nvidia mentioned.