Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis
What’s in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion operations a second? Only if you’re Waymo.
For the first time, Waymo revealed key details about the heavy compute “brain” housed in the trunk of its robotaxis, including chip architecture, processor specs, and internal component details. The details, published in a blog post today, also includes a list of hardware suppliers that Waymo uses to build the computers that power its driverless fleet.
It’s a revealing look at the world’s leading player in driverless technology. Waymo is currently operating around 4,000 vehicles in over 10 cities, conducting approximately 500,000 paid trips a week. The company claims that its technology significantly reduces traffic crashes and injuries as compared to human drivers. And while a lot of the work to run its vehicles relies on heavy...
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