
Danny Shapiro
Danny Shapiro is NVIDIA’s Senior Director 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.
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
NVIDIA Opens Up Hyperion 8 Autonomous Vehicle Platform for AV Ecosystem
The next generation of vehicles will be packed with more technology than any computing system today. And with NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, companies can embrace this shift to more intelligent, software-defined… Read Article
Brain Gain: NVIDIA DRIVE Orin Now Central Computer for Intelligent Vehicles
NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, our breakthrough autonomous vehicle system-on-a-chip, is the new mega brain of the software-defined vehicle. Beyond self-driving features, NVIDIA CEO and founder Jensen Huang announced today during his… Read Article
IM AI: China Automaker SAIC Unveils EV Brand Powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin
There’s a new brand of automotive intelligence equipped with the brains — and the battery — to go the distance. SAIC, the largest automaker in China, joined forces with etail… Read Article
New Year, New Energy: Leading EV Makers Kick Off 2021 with NVIDIA DRIVE
Electric vehicle upstarts have gained a foothold in the industry and are using NVIDIA DRIVE to keep that momentum going. Nowhere is the trend of electric vehicles more apparent than… Read Article
Adam and EV: NIO Selects NVIDIA for Intelligent, Electric Vehicles
Chinese electric automaker NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. During a global… Read Article
Mercedes-Benz Transforms Vehicle Cockpit with NVIDIA-Powered AI
The AI cockpit has reached galactic proportions with the new Mercedes-Benz MBUX Hyperscreen. During a digital event, the luxury automaker unveiled the newest iteration of its intelligent infotainment system —… Read Article
Shifting Paradigms, Not Gears: How the Auto Industry Will Solve the Robotaxi Problem
A giant toaster with windows. That’s the image for many when they hear the term “robotaxi.” But there’s much more to these futuristic, driverless vehicles than meets the eye. They… Read Article