As the autonomous vehicle industry enters the next year, it will begin to navigate towards even greater technological frontiers.

Next-generation vehicles will not only be defined by their autonomous driving capabilities. Everything from the design and production process to the in-vehicle experience is entering a new era of digitization, efficiency, safety and intelligence.

These trends come after a wave of advancements in 2022. More automakers have announced plans to build software-defined vehicles on the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip, including Jaguar Land Rover, NIO, Polestar, Volvo Cars and Xpeng. And in-vehicle computing pushed the limits with the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE Thor platform.

With up to 2,000 trillion float operations per second, DRIVE Thor unifies…