Nvidia deepens BYD ties as it taps China EV makers' demand for AI

TAIPEI -- U.S. chipmaker Nvidia is expanding its partnership with Chinese EV maker BYD to include AI training, auto manufacturing and in-car computing, even as the company is barred from selling some of its most powerful chips to China.

BYD, the world's top EV maker, will use the latest generation of Drive Thor, Nvidia's next-generation in-vehicle computing chip platform designed for AI and autonomous driving applications, the chipmaker said on Monday at its GPU Technology Conference. The automaker will also use Nvidia's AI infrastructure to train AI models for autonomous driving.