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NEXTY Electronics starts sales in Japan of NVIDIA’s next‑generation automotive platform, NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor™
- Delivering a single‑chip solution that unifies AV, cockpit, and IVI -
NEXTY Electronics is now selling the DRIVE AGX Thor Developer Kit in Japan, which features the NVIDIA Corporation (hereinafter referred to as NVIDIA) next‑gen automotive SoC, “DRIVE Thor.”
Based on NVIDIA’s newest Blackwell architecture, DRIVE Thor is a high‑performance automotive computing platform that runs advanced driver‑assist and in-vehicle infotainment applications simultaneously on a single safe and reliable system. It is available in Japan only through select distributors.
With up to 2,000 FP4 (or 1,000 INT8) TFLOPS of compute power, it consolidates functions that previously required multiple devices onto one chip, enabling fast, secure AI processing inside the vehicle.
As a leading electronics distributor in the automotive sector, we act as NVIDIA’s authorized reseller, leveraging our deep automotive semiconductor expertise to help Japanese automakers and Tier‑1 suppliers adopt the DRIVE AGX Thor Developer Kit. We provide deployment assistance, technical support, and PoC environments for next‑generation mobility development.
DRIVE AGX Thor Developer Kit Specifications
For details, please refer to NVIDIA’s website.
| Component | Description | Details |
| Single AGX Thor SoC | NVIDIA integrated GPU | Blackwell architecture class—up to 1000 INT8 TOPS | 2000 FP4 FLOPs |
| CPU | ARM® Neoverse V3AE | |
| Programmable Vision Accelerators (PVAs) | Up to 2048 INT8 GMAC/s | 512 INT 16 GMAC/s | |
| Image Signal Processor (ISP) | 3.5 Gigabixels/s | |
| Video encoder | Up to 3.1 Gigapixels/s (H.265) | Up to 3.0 Gigapixels/s (H.264) | |
| Video decoder | Up to 2.9 Gigapixels/s (H.265) | Up to 2.6 Gigapixels/s (H.264) | |
| System RAM | 64 GB LPDDR5X | |
| Memory bandwidth (256-bit LPDDR5) | Up to 273 GB/s | |
| UFS | 256 GB | |
| DRIVE AGX System I/O | Cameras | 16x GMSL® 2 + 2x GMSL® 3 |
| Ethernet | Up to 76 Gb/s for data transmission (including for lidar/radar) | |
| Vehicle IO | 4 CAN interfaces |
Related information: Take It for a Spin: NVIDIA Rolls Out DRIVE AGX Thor Developer Kit to World’s Automotive Developers
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