NVIDIA NVDA has been
awarded a contract worth up to $20 million from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to research embedded processor
technologies that could lead to dramatic improvements in the ability
of autonomous vehicles to collect and process data from on-board
sensors.
DARPA is the U.S. Defense Department's research and development arm.
The five-year contract, awarded under DARPA's Power Efficiency
Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program,
will fund research for processors that are 75-times more energy
efficient than current embedded solutions. The goal is to enable surveillance and computer vision systems in ground and airborne
vehicles to collect and analyze vastly more data than can be
processed today in real time.
Existing embedded processors deliver about 1 gigaflops of performance
(1 billion floating point operations each second) per watt. The
NVIDIA program, known as Project Osprey, will research low-power
circuits and extremely efficient architectures and programming
systems that enable 75 gigaflops per watt, using process technologies
as advanced as 7 nanometer (nm) compared with today's 28-nm process.
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