Thursday, September 21st 2017
Tesla Motors Develops Semi-custom AI Chip with AMD
Tesla Motors, which arguably brought electric vehicles to the luxury-mainstream, is investing big in self-driving cars. Despite its leader Elon Musk's fears and reservations on just how much one must allow artificial intelligence (AI) to develop, the company realized that a true self-driving car cannot be made without giving the car a degree of machine learning and AI, so it can learn its surroundings in real-time, and maneuver itself with some agility. To that extent, Tesla is designing its own AI processor. This SoC (system on chip) will be a semi-custom development, in collaboration with the reigning king of semi-custom chips, AMD.
AMD has with it a clear GPGPU performance advantage over NVIDIA, despite the latter's heavy investments in deep-learning. AMD is probably also banking on good pricing, greater freedom over the IP thanks to open standards, and a vast semi-custom track-record, having developed semi-custom chips with technology giants such as Sony and Microsoft. Musk confirmed that the first car in which you can simply get in, fall asleep, and wake up at your destination, will roll out within two years, hinting at a 2019 rollout. This would mean a bulk of the chip's development is done.
Source:
CNBC
AMD has with it a clear GPGPU performance advantage over NVIDIA, despite the latter's heavy investments in deep-learning. AMD is probably also banking on good pricing, greater freedom over the IP thanks to open standards, and a vast semi-custom track-record, having developed semi-custom chips with technology giants such as Sony and Microsoft. Musk confirmed that the first car in which you can simply get in, fall asleep, and wake up at your destination, will roll out within two years, hinting at a 2019 rollout. This would mean a bulk of the chip's development is done.
33 Comments on Tesla Motors Develops Semi-custom AI Chip with AMD
Look at towing rules. They vary state to state, and make interstate towing a royal PITA.
Also, what about when there are two options, hitting fewer or more people? what about when the option with the fewest deaths is to kill the driver? these questions need answered. And we need a set federal standard, lest ther ebe decades and billions of dollars lost to rediculous local laws.
Also, not allowed to sleep in an autonomous car? What is the point? If you are not driving, falling asleep is really easy. What is the point of a car driving itself fully if I have to watch the road at all times? I might as well buy a cheaper non self driving car at that rate.
Can't wait to hear that pun on "The Late Night Show with Seth Meyers".
(Its Okay, Staff does it too now!)
Is their any article showing Tesla is having issues with Nvidia's solution?
www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-chips/globalfoundries-says-no-commitment-from-tesla-on-chip-deal-idUSKCN1BW259
www.streetinsider.com/dr/news.php?id=13317752
seekingalpha.com/article/4108550-tesla-just-ditch-nvidia-advanced-micro-devices
So, we got click-baited again, this time by CNBC. :banghead: