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I think they make their own chips only for deployment/inference, not for training.
by option 6y ago
I think they make their own chips only for deployment/inference, not for training.
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- omarforgotpwd 6y agoYeah, only the inference chips are in production in the car. They have a chip team in Austin which is lead by Pete Bannon, formerly of PA Semi (which Apple acquired to build their A series chips, and now their M series chips). The chips they designed are fabricated by Samsung in Austin. The "FSD Computer" that they have in their cars now has an Intel Atom board to run the user interface, and then dual arm SoCs to run the Autopilot stack. Each arm SoC has a special ASIC to hardware accelerate certain common neural net inference functions (I.e. dot products and other matrix math).
- xiphias2 6y agoThey are working on training chip as well codenamed Dojo. Elon is thinking of offering it as a cloud service, just like Google’s TPU service.