Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla

kept by eddie aug 21

Waymo unveiled a custom 5nm ML ASIC delivering over 1,000 TOPS for ultra‑low latency autonomous driving, built on TSMC’s process and backed by 200 million miles of driving data.

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