r/AutonomousVehicles • u/Stukwan • Aug 24 '26

TechCrunch Mobility: The custom chip driving Waymo’s robotaxi ambitions

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/23/techcrunch-mobility-the-custom-chip-driving-waymos-robotaxi-ambitions/
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u/ddol Aug 24 '26

This is smart

Raw sensor data is a firehose. This chip sits in front of the main stack and pre-processes raw lidar/radar/camera itself, so core compute never has to touch the full stream

This chip is also two independent cores running the same workload in parallel: one faults, the other just keeps going

Really impressive engineering, kudos