NVIDIA and self-driving tech company Aurora have announced that they are collaborating to develop a new Level 4 and Level 5 self-driving hardware platform that will utilize the NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier processor.

During the opening press conference of CES 2018 in Las Vegas, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang revealed that the company’s automotive team is working with Aurora to “bring up a new modular and scalable DRIVE Xavier platform that will bring autonomous vehicles to market.”

“NVIDIA created DRIVE Xavier for companies like Aurora,” Huang says. “Our two world-class engineering teams share a common understanding of the power of AI and the enormous processing required to enable advanced self-driving cars and mobility-as-a-service solutions.”

Aurora CEO Chris Urmson comments, “Aurora’s mission is to deliver the benefits of self-driving quickly and safely around the world. To do that, we are developing a platform that scales across a broad range of makes and models from our automotive partners.”

Urmson adds, “NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier is a key element of Aurora’s computer, delivering the performance needed to power our self-driving system.”

Founded in 2017, Aurora expects to deploy Level 4 and Level 5 cars on roads across the world within the upcoming years, with help from its automotive partners.