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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by izend on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:03PM (#17672529)
What is Waymo using? Custom ASIC?
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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by Fricken on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:07PM (#17672561)
Waymo pretty top-secret about their hardware, so I'm not sure. I would venture to guess that if they don't have a custom ASIC yet they're working on one. I know they had Intel FPGAs and it's a safe bet they've integrated Google's tensor core architecture.
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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by bob_theslob646 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:37PM (#17676755)
Wasn't a bunch of stuff declassified during their lawsuit with Uber?
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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by Fricken on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:02AM (#17677388)
A bunch of details about their lidar came out in the depositions, and lots of juicy gossip about their internal politics, power struggles and backroom dealings. I don't recall reading anything about their compute.
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Re:Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars by wyldfire on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:37PM (#17672868)
Waymo's advantages include LIDAR and extremely detailed maps, IIRC. If I had to guess, those maps probably help them distinguish between roadside objects that happen to be static right now and ones that are really not going anywhere.
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