Very cool. To be honest, I'd assumed they were using commodity hardware, but no real reason for that. Cool chip. It is quite interesting that so many large companies have their own chips for these things. I almost managed to get my hands on a couple of accidentally liquidated MTIA chips but I was too slow. I wonder what the chip is like and what the dev experience is writing for it.<p>It would just be cool to see what these guys have cooked up dev tools wise since Google has always been famed for good developer experience (often to such a degree that Xooglers are useless outside the exosuit).
Apologies for repeating myself, but it's hard to convey how far ahead Waymo is in every area: sensors, vehicles, training data, markets served, simulation, infrastructure, operations, regulatory.<p>They're growing fast, but I do wonder what they see as the bottlenecks: municipal approval, training, manufacturing? It's really unfortunate that lobbying is slowing self-driving rollout in some of the biggest and most important cities: NYC, Chicago, DC.
They really are the impressive tech, it's really a shame that they aren't the one capturing all the media spotlight.<p>I don't know if we'll get there eventually, but if we do, I won't be surprised if it's because of Waymo.
Would love to get them in nyc
Compute is under the trunk ??? Noted. At the price of RAM nowadays it's like the new copper !
they now are doing a 5nm asic, what did they have before this?