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Their plan is probably to build machine learning/autonomous driving chips combining Intel's own chips/expertise, FPGA (as with their Altera acquisition) and spe
by dharma1 10y ago
Their plan is probably to build machine learning/autonomous driving chips combining Intel's own chips/expertise, FPGA (as with their Altera acquisition) and specialist ML chips (like Movidius that they bought recently).
$16B for Mobilieye as a route to market (they already have the relationships and supply chains set up with car manufacturing) sounds like a lot but Intel needs a fast track if they want to compete with Nvidia (and ARM and Qualcomm) in that space.
- SEJeff 10y agoAlso of note is that MobileEye is the company that built the sensor and software suite for Telsa's Autopilot generation 1 system. Tesla threw it away due to disagreements and Tesla now uses Nvidia Drive PX 2 (a customized version no doubt) for the number crunching and their own camera suite.
- petra 10y agoOnce you got a really competitive system, how hard is it to build relationships and set up supply chains with car companies ?
- Symmetry 10y agoIf you've got a good enough sense of your algorithms and have a large enough scale to be rolling your own ASIC components you probably don't need an FPGA in you chip.