NVIDIA Beefs Up Its Driverless Truck Muscle

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) said last week that it participated in a more than $20 million funding round into TuSimple, a Chinese start-up that's developing self-driving technology for long-haul trucks.

The graphics-chip specialist is well known for its self-driving car initiatives and partnerships with automakers Tesla, Toyota, Daimler's Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen's Audi, Volvo, and others. However, it seems to fly under many investors' radars that the artificial intelligence player is plunking down its chips (literally and figuratively) on the driverless trucking space, too.

Here's what you should know.

Source: Fool.com