PALO ALTO, CA, Jan 9, 2026 – Hesai Technology has been selected as the lidar partner for NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Hyperion 10, NVIDIA’s reference compute and sensor platform for autonomous vehicles designed to support Level 4 automated driving.
Hesai has qualified its sensors on NVIDIA’s DRIVE Hyperion architecture, joining a growing ecosystem of production-ready perception hardware. The platform supports cameras, radar, lidar, and ultrasonic sensors used to develop and validate Level 4 autonomous driving systems.
Built on two NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor SoCs using the Blackwell architecture, DRIVE Hyperion provides real-time compute for full 360-degree sensor fusion. The system exceeds 2,000 FP4 teraflops, equivalent to about 1,000 INT8 trillion operations per second.
“Everything that moves will eventually become autonomous, and DRIVE Hyperion is the backbone that makes that transition possible,” said Ali Kani, vice president of automotive at NVIDIA. “By unifying compute, sensors and safety into one open platform, we’re enabling our entire ecosystem, from automakers to AV SW ecosystem, to bring full autonomy to market faster, with the reliability and trust that mobility-at-scale demands.”
Hesai designed the ETX long-range lidar for L3 and L4 autonomous vehicles. Built on the company’s 4th generation technology platform, ETX delivers high-resolution, long-range detection in a low-profile form factor that supports roof-mounted or behind-the-windshield installation.
Hesai’s selection follows its ongoing work with NVIDIA since 2019. The effort focuses on delivering automotive-grade lidar systems designed to meet safety, reliability, and integration requirements for production vehicles.
Source: Hesai Technology
About Hesai Technology
Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, Hesai Technology is a provider of three-dimensional light detection and ranging (LiDAR) solutions. The company develops, manufactures, and sells LiDAR products for a range of applications, including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for passenger and commercial vehicles, autonomous driving, and robotic platforms such as last-mile delivery robots and automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Hesai supplies ADAS LiDAR to 6 of the top 10 global OEMs by revenue and holds the No. 1 position in the global ADAS LiDAR market with a 26% market share. The company employs more than 1,100 people and operates offices in Shanghai, Palo Alto, and Stuttgart, serving customers in over 40 countries. The company integrates in-house manufacturing with LiDAR R&D to accelerate product iteration and ensure high performance, quality, and affordability.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, designs and manufactures graphics processing units, systems on chips, networking hardware, and AI intelligence software such as CUDA. Its products serve industries including gaming, data centers, autonomous vehicles, professional visualization, robotics, health care, and energy. The company introduced the GPU in 1999 and later expanded into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. In gaming, its GPUs support high-performance rendering, while in AI and high-performance computing, its systems provide the infrastructure for training and deploying large-scale models. NVIDIA also develops tools for robotics and autonomous driving.