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Accepted submission by takyon at 2019-04-23 00:40:54
Hardware

Tesla vaunts creation of 'the best chip in the world' for self-driving [techcrunch.com]

At its "Autonomy Day" today, Tesla detailed the new custom chip that will be running the self-driving software in its vehicles. Elon Musk rather peremptorily called it "the best chip in the world... objectively." That might be a stretch, but it certainly should get the job done.

Called for now the "full self-driving computer," or FSD Computer, it is a high-performance, special-purpose chip built (by Samsung, in Texas) solely with autonomy and safety in mind. Whether and how it actually outperforms its competitors is not a simple question and we will have to wait for more data and closer analysis to say more.

Robotaxis also at TechCrunch [techcrunch.com].


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