Nvidia will only start delivering samples of Xavier-soc in in 2018

Nvidia says it will deliver samples of its Xavier soc with Volta GPU in early 2018. The successor to the Tegra-socs is intended, among other things, for systems in self-driving cars. By the end of 2018, Xavier should become available at more partners.

Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, announced this during the GPU Technology Conference in China, according to AnandTech. When the company presented its Xavier soc, it said the first samples would be delivered by the end of this year. It now looks like hardware based on the Xavier soc won’t hit the market until 2019.

Nvidia wants to use the Xavier soc mainly for autonomous systems. Not only in self-driving cars, but also, for example, in drones or industrial robots. The soc uses the Tensor Cores that Nvidia introduced with its Volta GPU for data centers. These cores are specialized in training neural networks.

Whether Nvidia also comes with Xavier-socs for consumer hardware is not yet known. The current Tegra socs based on the Maxwell architecture are used in a number of tablets and the Nintendo Switch also contains a Tegra X1 soc.