Hi Perhaps,
Any chance of posting a copy of the article here as I can't access the article.
What does it mean by 80 Akidas built in?
Thanks in advance.
Best I could do off my phone with translate.
Thanks
@Perhaps Nice find.
Mercedes Vision EQXX as a technology carrier with brain chip and Nvidia
Inside the Vision EQXX there is a new infotainment system with AI technology from Brainchip and Nvidia.
04/14/2022 | 7:21 p.m
Claus Ludewig
Bamboo fiber and vegan leather in the interior of the Mercedes Vision EQXX
The role of the technology leader is also evident in the interior. All carpets are made from 100 percent bamboo fibers. Pulverized cactus fibers in combination with a bio-based polyurethane matrix form the vegan leather alternative Deserttex. The artificial leather Mylo, which is also used, is made from mushrooms, more precisely from mycelium. The material mix is completed by the well-known synthetic leather Dinamica, which in the concept vehicle consists of 38 percent recycled PET bottles.
Mercedes Vision EQXX as a technology carrier with brain chip and Nvidia
Inside the Vision EQXX there is a new infotainment system with AI technology from Brainchip and Nvidia.04/14/2022 | 7:21 p.m
Claus Ludewig28
[Source: Daimler AG]
Bamboo fiber and vegan leather in the interior of the Mercedes Vision EQXX
The role of the technology leader is also evident in the interior. All carpets are made from 100 percent bamboo fibers. Pulverized cactus fibers in combination with a bio-based polyurethane matrix form the vegan leather alternative Deserttex. The artificial leather Mylo, which is also used, is made from mushrooms, more precisely from mycelium. The material mix is completed by the well-known synthetic leather Dinamica, which in the concept vehicle consists of 38 percent recycled PET bottles.
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The infotainment system, which runs on an 8K screen with mini-LED technology and a screen diagonal of 47.5 inches, is also completely new. Passengers can talk to the avatar, who acts as a tour guide. Inspired by the other
concept car Mercedes Vision AVTRThe Vision EQXX also uses artificial intelligence to control air conditioning etc. Information should only be sent when the received signals reach certain threshold values. The Hey Mercedes voice control should consume significantly less power than previous MBUX systems. To this end, the Baden-Württemberg company is working together with the Californian company Brainchip and Nvidia. Brainchip provides the Akida hardware and software, which is 1.2 million neurons per SoC, distributed across an
80 NPU chipset that is being built in 28 nm at contract manufacturer TSMC. Nvidia, in turn, delivers the
Geforce RTX 3080 with the Orin SoC based on the Ampere architecture& Co. continues to be the driving force behind future MBUX generations and is developing the MBUX operating system and autonomous driving functions together with Mercedes.
From 2025 there will only be new Mercedes models as electric cars
Although Mercedes recently announced on July 22, 2021 that it would
only bring fully electric platforms for cars and vans onto the market from 2025, Mercedes intends to continue building and selling the cars with combustion engines that have been on the market by then as long as they do there is a demand. The group is preparing for the fact that there will be regional differences.
From 2024, all compact models of the A/CLA/GLA and B/GLB series that are newly launched on the market will be based on the Mercedes Modular Architecture platform. The MMA platform can be used for both e-cars and automobiles with a transversely mounted 4-cylinder engine. Mercedes will develop the combustion engines for the MMA vehicles with the Chinese car manufacturer Geely, with whom the Swabians are already working on the
Smart #1 electric car, in order to save costs in both cases. The e-car versions of MMA should - at least in part - rely on inexpensive LFP batteries, which can withstand more charging cycles than conventional lithium-ion batteries, but are more sensitive to winter temperatures. From 2025, all Mercedes luxury-class vehicles will be based on the MB.EA electric car platform without an LFP battery, so that from this point onwards, for example, a new edition of the E-Class will only be fully electric. The counterpart with a combustion engine will continue to be built after 2025 based on the MRA rear-wheel drive architecture and will probably receive several facelifts. In the summer of 2021, I was able to put the current
W213 series to an everyday test as a diesel plug-in hybrid .
Also worth reading: Mercedes Vision AVTR: Navi presented with thought control
Collection for the Mercedes Vision EQXX with a range of over 1,000 km:
- Mercedes undertook a test drive from Sindelfingen to Cassis with the Vision EQXX concept vehicle without recharging. The electric car can travel more than 1,000 kilometers with one battery charge.
- The e-car relies on a lithium-ion battery with 100 kWh, which is also installed in the EQS 450+ today in this capacity dimension, but which only has a range of between around 400 kilometers in winter and 630 kilometers.
- With the EQXX, Mercedes focuses on efficiency and achieves an average consumption of just 8.7 kWh, while the EQS consumes between 16 kWh and 28 kWh, depending on the outside temperature, wheel-tire combination and driving speed.
- Mercedes does not use a heat pump in the EQS 450+, so that heating up the vehicle in winter can cost a lot of range, while a heat pump and heat exchanger are installed in the Vision EQXX to use less energy for heating.
- In addition, there are a number of aerodynamic components in the Vision EQXX, so that the air resistance is only 0.17.
- The Vision EQXX concept vehicle will not be available as a series vehicle. Only individual technologies should later be used in new Mercedes electric cars.
- In order to reduce the power consumption of the infotainment system, AI technology is used so that the voice control only reacts above a certain threshold.
- For this purpose, a chipset from Brainchip is installed, which provides 80 NPUs. Nvidia also continues to supply SoCs for the MBUX infotainment system and is working with Mercedes on further development.
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