Waymo unveiled its first in-house 5-nm ASIC chip, designed specifically for autonomous driving. The chip processes and fuses data from lidar, radar, and cameras in real time and delivers more than 1,000 TOPS of performance for ML tasks at the system input. The Waymo Driver computing system is designed with an emphasis on low latency, resilience, and redundancy. Waymo reports that it has increased computing power 20-fold over the past 8 years, and the system operates as two independent computing branches so that if one fails, the other can immediately take over control. waymo.com 🇬🇧