Re:TSMC to customers: It's time to stop using older nodes an...
by smoldesu on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @12:43PM
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FWIW, Tesla is one of the few companies that actually put decent processors in their cars: in lieu of a cruddy, off-the-shelf ARM CPU, they use Intel (and more recently, Ryzen) x86-based machines. Their performance relative to the Cortex processors running in competitors is enormous, it must be slow due to the volume of processes Tesla is actually running onboard.
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Re:TSMC to customers: It's time to stop using older nodes an...
by waste_monk on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @09:40PM
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Isn't one of the big problems with Tesla vehicles that they use COTS hardware?
I'm sure I saw something about how they used commercial-grade touch screen instead of automotive grade, so they feel far nicer / more responsive than other cars but fail much faster as they aren't designed to handle repeated heating/cooling cycles that cars experience.
Re:TSMC to customers: It's time to stop using older nodes an...
by formerkrogemp on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:48PM
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I don't need my car to drive itself with technology that doesn't work and requires me, pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers as test subjects. I don't need my car to be powerful enough to compute simulations of the Earth's atmosphere. I just want a basic fucking car with good enough safety features. This fetishization of shoving chips into every square centimeter is ridiculous. I want to use my computer and drive my car, not drive my computer with all of the attendant software issues that'll inevitably crop up.