Manufacturing

Tesla prefers its self-driving hardware over that of other makers

Elon Musk's Tesla is developing its own self-driving chip rather than using someone else's, such as Nvidia's Drive Xavier, at left.
August 27, 2018 05:00 AM

Bombshells are a common occurrence in Tesla's quarterly analyst calls, and the latest was no exception. As soon as CEO Elon Musk introduced the call, he turned the microphone over to members of his Autopilot team who announced that Tesla had spent three years developing a custom "neural network accelerator" chip that is now nearly ready to power its upcoming autonomous hardware suite.

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