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Waymo develops custom AI chip for self-driving vehicles

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Waymo, a self-driving technology company, has developed its own custom silicon chip designed to process sensor data for its autonomous vehicles. This specialized machine learning chip, capable of over 1,000 trillion operations per second, is integrated into Waymo's latest Ojai robotaxi and aims to enhance real-time driving capabilities, durability, and safety. The company continues to collaborate with external partners for various compute tasks while focusing on its in-house silicon development. AI

IMPACT This custom silicon could improve the efficiency and performance of autonomous driving systems, potentially accelerating the deployment of robotaxis.

RANK_REASON Company developed a custom chip for its vehicles, which is a product/infrastructure development rather than a core AI model release or research.

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Waymo develops custom AI chip for self-driving vehicles

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. AI Business TIER_1 English(EN) · Graham Hope ·

    Waymo Develops Its Own Chip for Self-Driving

    The vendor said this chip is fast enough to handle real-time driving conditions.

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