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Waymo reportedly built a custom ASIC chip to improve robotaxi reflexes and reduce dependence on Nvidia
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Waymo says it has built a custom ASIC chip that it claims will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills while helping the company diversify away from suppliers like Nvidia.
A custom silicon strategy could reduce Waymo's dependency on Nvidia for autonomous driving compute, potentially lowering per-vehicle hardware costs and giving it tighter control over the hardware-software stack. The claim is unverified beyond Waymo's own statement and carried by a single feed, so the specifics of performance gains and deployment timelines remain unknown.
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Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip for its robotaxis, claiming improvements to reflexes and navigational skills.
The chip is positioned as a way to diversify away from companies like Nvidia as a compute supplier.
Only one feed is carrying this story, sourced to Edward Ludlow at Bloomberg, so independent corroboration is absent.
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