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Telsa unveils internally developed neural network accelerator chip and drop in replacement for existing Nvidia solution
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- Title
- Elon Musk - Tesla Update and Q&A (Aug 1st, 2018)
- Authors
- The Artificial Intelligence Channel
- Published
- Aug 1 2018
UPDATE: Doh, it did come out in the press while I was listening to the call:
https://electrek.co/2018/08/01/tesla-chip-most-advanced-computer-autonomous-driving-autopilot-hardware-3-update/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/01/elon-musk-says-tesla-ai-chip-project-is-finally-coming-to-fruition.html
I have not seen this in the press yet, so here is a link to the part of Tesla's earnings call today which I thought you all might find interesting. Pete Bannon, who worked at DEC, Intel, Apple (led design of iPhone ARM chips), has designed the Tesla Hardware 3 platform which is an order of magnitude improvement over the NVIDIA GPU solution. In the linked part of the video they describe the solution and why their bottom-up neural network chip design is a 10x processing improvement over the leading GPU solution.
I remember reading that someone from NVIDIA said that they did not think that Tesla could deliver on their self-driving ambitions with NVIDIA's platform, well... they couldn't and so they just secretly built their own optimized hardware.
Disclaimer: I hold no positions on TSLA stock. Sorry about the title gore, wish I could edit it.
edit: This must be a Tesla Autopilot specific ASIC, correct? Along the lines of Google's Tensor Processing Unit?