According to CNBC, Tesla is teaming up with AMD to develop a custom chip optimized for AI, to be used for self-driving features in Tesla cars. The head of Tesla's "Autopilot" team is Jim Keller, formerly of AMD and Apple, who helped design the A4 and A5 chips while working at Apple and was lead architect on the Athlon 64 at AMD.
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GlobalFoundries, which fabricates chips for Advanced Micro Devices Inc, said on Thursday that Tesla had not committed to working with it on any autonomous driving technology or product, contradicting an earlier media report. [...] The spokesperson for GlobalFoundries said that Jha’s comments at the GlobalFoundries Technology Conference were not reported accurately.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 23 2017, @12:22PM
Here's what Nvidia is pitching,
http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html [nvidia.com]
But this market is a fast moving target (like pedestrians??), with new sensors and new algorithms all the time.