A rendering of a Waymo vehicle on a city street. Image: Waymo
The company said its ‘purpose-built 5nm ASIC’ chip aims to optimise AV systems for ‘low-latency performance’.
Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle (AV) manufacturer, has built a custom AI chip to improve the future performance of its robotaxis.
In a blogpost yesterday (20 August) written jointly by the company’s vice-president of engineering and its compute lead, the company said its “purpose-built 5nm ASIC” chip aims to optimise AV systems for “low-latency performance”, leading to better and faster execution of real-time driving commands.
Waymo said its AV systems integrate co-designed hardware, sensors and algorithms to “process, fuse and run advanced neural networks on raw sensor data in real time”, and that its custom chip is built to “handle the massive influx of raw data” that an AV system must process.
