AMD + Tesla | AMD AI Technologies To Help Tesla Develop Smart-Cars

AMD AI Technologies To Help Tesla Develop Smart-Cars | Now that AI is the becoming the biggest thing trending in all industries, some leading AI tech companies like AMD are in center of the attention. In cars industry Ai plays an important role in processing all the info the car sensors gather from the street objects. Elon Musk Just confirmed recently at the NIPS conference; Now Tesla is trying to develop its own processing chips for AI artificial intelligence and Tesla is now hiring chip architect Jim Keller to be working on their AI hardware architecture project. Jim Keller used to be working for AMD on the K8, K12 and ZEN microarchitecture. He was responsible for the x86-64 set and HyperTransport technologies as well. Based on Elon Musk he has joined Tesla as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering.

Elon Musk stated “I want to make it clear that Tesla is serious about artificial intelligence, such as software and hardware, and we are developing our own AI chips,” said the Tesla CEO. He added that Jim Keller is working on the ai-hardware. It’s interesting as Musk has been warning about the risks of artificial intelligence for a long time now.  The company would work with AMD on this. Seems like a team of fifty people led by Jim Keller is working on it. Musk did not say when the chips are expected to be ready and used.

Tesla seems to be up against Nvidia Ai products for some reason, while Porsche and Volvo are working with Nvidia on their cars. Nvidia seems to be strongly committed to AI GPU processors that can be used in AD autonomous cars (PX series). These vehicles collect a huge amount of data via their sensors that should be processed and analyzed in real-time so the car could react to the real world. Tesla already has over 1.3 billion miles of road data accumulated through its first generation Autopilot program and that is useful for its second generation Autopilot. The AI and machine learning is entering in all the industries and cars are one of the main industries that are going to get AI in AD modes for the next generation of cars.

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