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NVIDIA IGX Thor early access is now available to qualified developers building production-grade physical AI systems. To ensure the platform is deployed in environments where safety and performance capabilities are fully realized, access to IGX Thor hardware and the Board Support Package requires review and approval by NVIDIA. Submit your application to begin the qualification process and get your program on the path to certified physical AI deployment.
FAQs
NVIDIA IGX Thor is a production-ready platform that handles the hardest parts of building a certified physical AI system — the safety architecture, the real-time OS, and the AI compute — so engineers can focus on the differentiating applications. NVIDIA's hypervisor integrated in Halos Safety Stack enforces strict partitioning between the safety-certified QNX environment and the AI compute partition, meaning the separation between safe and non-safe workloads is managed in software. QNX OS for Safety 8.0's pre-certified software stack shortens the path through functional safety qualification, while NVIDIA's Isaac toolchain accelerates development of AI applications.
Any organization looking to develop products on NVIDIA IGX Thor with QNX is required to submit an application for review. NVIDIA evaluates applicants based on their intended use case, deployment environment, and program readiness. Once approved, organizations will then need to acquire the appropriate QNX GEDP Premium licenses before the hardware and BSP are released.
The Board Support Package includes everything your team needs to begin software development on IGX Thor - OS images for QNX OS for Safety 8.0 / QNX OS 8.0, bootloader, hardware drivers, SDK components, and documentation covering the platform's safety architecture. It is the complete software foundation for building certified physical AI applications on IGX Thor.
QNX OS for Safety 8.0 carries pre-existing certification artifacts for IEC 61508 up to SIL 3 and ISO 26262 up to ASIL D. These cover the primary functional safety frameworks applicable to industrial robotics, autonomous systems, and machinery. Developers will inherit this certification evidence with the purchase of QNX GEDP Premium licenses.
Approved developers get access to NVIDIA's Isaac platform for robotics, including Isaac ROS 2 packages, Isaac Sim for virtual development and testing, Holoscan for streaming data analysis, and the NVIDIA CUDA and TensorRT toolchains optimized for IGX Thor. On the QNX side, developers have access to the QNX Software Development Platform 8.0 and the various profiling and debugging tools built for real-time safety environments. The combined toolchain covers the full development workflow from simulation through to on-hardware validation.