NVIDIA was fast to reply to this, saying Tesla was incorrect of their comparisons, in that the NVIDIA Drive Xavier at 21 TOPS was not the precise comparability, and somewhat it ought to have been in opposition to NVIDIA’s personal full self-driving {hardware} the Drive AGX Pegasus able to 320 TOPS. Oh, and NVIDIA additionally claimed Tesla erroneously reported Drive Xavier’s efficiency was 21 TOPS as a substitute of 30 TOPS. It is attention-grabbing how one firm was fast to acknowledge itself because the unmarked competitors, particularly at a time when Intel, through their Mobileye division, have additionally given them a tough time not too long ago. Perhaps it is a signal of issues to come back in that self-driving vehicles, and AI computing normally, is getting too huge a market to be left to third-party manufacturing, with bigger firms choosing in-house {hardware} itself. This transfer does damage NVIDIA’s focus on this subject, as market hypothesis is ongoing that they could find yourself dropping different prospects following Tesla’s departure.
