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Mobility
Waymo unveils in-house 5 nm autonomous driving chip, keeps Nvidia and AMD ties
Waymo unveiled a custom 5 nanometre chip and an in-car computing architecture for its robotaxis. It said its ASIC processes camera, lidar and radar data in real time and can handle 1,000 trillion operations per second. Waymo is designing key sensor processing and fusion functions itself while sourcing CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, memory and storage from suppliers including AMD, Micron, Nvidia, Samsung Electronics, SanDisk, Socionext and TSMC. Contract sizes and volumes were not disclosed.
Telecommunications & Media
Waymo robotaxi stockpile hits 953, with 684 ready for deployment
Waymo has built up 953 robotaxis at its Mesa, Arizona, site, with 684 already fitted with sensors and converted for immediate deployment, a monthly aerial-photo analysis shows. The count also identified 12 completed Hyundai Ioniq 5-based robotaxis for the first time. Waymo said its sixth-generation hardware cuts sensor count 42 percent and costs under $20,000 per vehicle. Waymo processes more than 500,000 paid rides a week and targets 1 million by end-2026.
Mobility
Waymo robotaxi logs 500,000 weekly paid rides in 10 U.S. cities, tenfold growth in two years
Waymo is rapidly expanding its influence in the U.S. robotaxi market. Alphabet-owned Waymo is recording 500,000 paid robotaxi trips a week across 10 cities, a tenfold increase in two years, TechCrunch reported on March 27. Waymo has expanded service beyond Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles to seven more cities. Regulators are also examining issues including how its robotaxis recognized school buses.
