AMD helping Tesla to build its own AI chip

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On 21/9/2017 at 4:41 AM, Taf the Ghost said:

Automotive Electrical Tech is fairly different from Server/PC based Tech. So there's a good bit more going on here than would be easily figured out from outside. When it comes to Cars, you simply have a lot of other considerations. The GCN-line of GPUs are incredibly good Compute cards at low wattages, which is probably the main driving point. In an all-electric car, you are going to have a specific power budget for certain tasks. 

 

There's also the reality that AMD has a semi-custom line of processors & GPUs already, so they have an entire department dedicated to building out really specific hardware for this type of work already.

yes, APUs are "the logical choice" here 

and that... is equal to AMD
like PS4 did
like XB1 did

Nvidia simply "cannot compete" with this reality
and TELSA know it