Tesla is getting closer to having its own chip for handling autonomous driving tasks in its cars.
The carmaker has received back samples of the first implementation of its processor and is now running tests on it, said a source familiar with the matter.
The effort to build its own chip is in line with Tesla's push to be vertically integrated and decrease reliance on other companies.
But Tesla isn't completely going it alone in chip development, according to the source, and will build on top of AMD intellectual property.
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On Wednesday Sanjay Jha, CEO of AMD spin-off GlobalFoundries, said at the company's technology conference in Santa Clara, California, that the company is working directly with Tesla. GlobalFoundries, which fabricates chips, has a wafer supply agreement in place with AMD through 2020.
AMDs chips have pretty awesome raw compute and at the low end (Polaris for example) they are pretty efficient. They just don't really game that well.
If you're building your own software stack completely you don't care about things like Cuda. You're making your own low-level calls to the hardware and thus you just want the best raw compute and AMD has decent raw compute. I'm also sure AMD priced themselves very competitively. I'm sure there is tons to the deal that is unknown but AMD doesn't make weak graphics processors by any stretch. They just don't make the most compelling gaming GPUs. Well, at least not lately in the high end.
Maybe because AMD also develops and designs CPUs in addition to GPUs, its very possible that their expertise in this application is better than Nvidia
First off, nvidia started with tesla a while back.
Most likely they have also competed on this along side AMD, and lost.
Nvidia have also rarely been doing semi-custom chips lately. Especially since they lost the x86 license when intel would not renew it. This made their CPU/SoC a more specific system similar to ARM instead of a full blown CPU like AMD's APUs.
Also nvidia have a lot going on right now in the AI and data centers market even without tesla. From I feel, they are struggling to get enough chips from TSMC who seem to be pretty overbooked for the next couple of years, so designing and making and ordering those chips might interfere with other markets they are already committed on.
B.bb..bu..but AMD is bad at everything! Polaris and Vega were all failures! No one would ever want to work with AMD because they fail at everything!
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