Waymo has designed a robocar chip to stay ahead of Tesla

REG AD EDGE AND IOT 5 nm ML accelerators promise 1,000+ TOPS, ultra-low latency To reach their destinations safely, autonomous vehicles have just milliseconds to ingest and process streaming data from more than a dozen cameras. It's a job that's been handled with off-the-shelf AI components thus far, but Waymo has begun rolling its own AI ASICs to optimize the process. It's not alone.Revealed in a blog post Thursday, the Alphabet-backed robo-taxi startup's first custom silicon is designed to convert raw sensor data into driver responses as quickly as possible.Built on Taiwanese foundry giant TSMC’s 5 nm process tech, the chip is specifically optimized to run both more traditional machine learning algorithms like convolutional neural networks and modern transformer models similar to those u