Danny Shapiro
Danny Shapiro is NVIDIA’s Vice President of Automotive, focusing on solutions that enable faster and better design of automobiles, as well as in-vehicle solutions for infotainment, navigation and driver assistance. He's a 25-year veteran of the computer graphics and semiconductor industries, and has been with NVIDIA since 2009. Prior to NVIDIA, Danny served in marketing, business development and engineering roles at ATI, 3Dlabs, Silicon Graphics and Digital Equipment. He holds a BSE in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University and an MBA from the Hass School of Business at UC Berkeley. He lives in Northern California, where his home solar panel system charges his electric car.
Autonomous Era Arrives at CES 2022 With NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion and Omniverse Avatar
CES has long been a showcase on what’s coming down the technology pipeline. This year, NVIDIA is showing the radical innovation happening now. During a special virtual address at the… Read Article
Sensing What’s Ahead in 2022: Latest Breakthroughs Pave Way for Year of Autonomous Vehicle Innovation
2021 trends are charging into 2022, heralding a new era of autonomous transportation and opening up business models and services never before dreamed of. In the next year, software-defined compute… Read Article
A First-Class Experience, for Every Car: Meet NVIDIA DRIVE Concierge and Chauffeur, Built With Omniverse Avatar
The daily drive doesn’t have to be a daily grind. In his GTC keynote, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced NVIDIA DRIVE Concierge and DRIVE Chauffeur, AI platforms dedicated… Read Article
Technology in Motion: NVIDIA and Volvo Cars Detail Software-Defined Future of Safe Transportation
All roads to the future of autonomous, electric and connected transportation run through one key innovation: software-defined, centralized computing. Today at Volvo Cars’ Tech Moment event, Ali Kani, NVIDIA vice… Read Article
Tesla Unveils Top AV Training Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs
Tackling one of the largest computing challenges of this lifetime requires larger than life computing. At CVPR this week, Andrej Karpathy, senior director of AI at Tesla, unveiled the in-house… Read Article
NVIDIA Acquires DeepMap, Enhancing Mapping Solutions for the AV Industry
Editor’s note: NVIDIA completed its acquisition of DeepMap on Aug. 26, 2021. It’s time for autonomous vehicle developers to blaze new trails. NVIDIA has acquired DeepMap, a startup dedicated to… Read Article
The Future’s So Bright: NVIDIA DRIVE Shines at Auto Shanghai
NVIDIA DRIVE-powered cars electrified the atmosphere this week at Auto Shanghai. The global auto show is the oldest in China and has become the stage to debut the latest vehicles.… Read Article
EV Technology Goes into Hyperdrive with Mercedes-Benz EQS
Mercedes-Benz is calling on its long heritage of luxury to accelerate electric vehicle technology with the new EQS sedan. The premium automaker lifted the wraps off the long-awaited flagship EV… Read Article
Volvo Cars Extends Collaboration with NVIDIA to Use NVIDIA DRIVE Orin Across Fleet
Volvo Cars is extending its long-held legacy of safety far into the future. The global automaker announced during the GTC keynote today that it will use NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to… Read Article