Waymo's custom chip decides what the car sees

Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis

Waymo revealed its 5nm custom ASIC with 1-quadrillion-TOPS ML-primary architecture for real-time sensor fusion across 13 cameras deployed in robotaxi trunks. Hardware costs dropped 80% to $20–25k per vehicle, yet remain a critical scalability bottleneck and supply chain dependency (AMD, Nvidia, TSMC).