Waymo is putting its own silicon in the driver’s seat.
The autonomous driving unit of Alphabet Inc. revealed on Thursday that it has developed custom chips for its robotaxi fleet, marking the company’s first public look into the hardware platform housed in the trunks of its driverless vehicles.
The purpose-built application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), manufactured using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 5-nanometer process, is designed to digest mountains of raw sensor data before passing information to the core driving system.
Waymo’s custom silicon focuses strictly on the edge ingestion layer rather than managing every vehicle…
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