Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis

What's in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion operations a second? Only if you're Waymo.

For the first time, Waymo revealed key details about the heavy compute "brain" housed in the trunk of its robotaxis, including chip architecture, processor specs, and internal component details. The details, published in a blog post today, also includes a list of hardware suppliers that Waymo uses to build the computers that power its driverless fleet.

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