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Alphabet's Waymo Has Built a Custom Chip for Its Robotaxis
- drtz 29d agoArchive link: https://archive.is/pi8xy https://archive.is/pi8xy > The chip is made using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 5-nanometer technique, Waymo said. It's great to see alternatives to NVIDIA chips coming up, but this really highlights the underlying bottleneck that is TSMC's dominance in the manufacturing of these devices.
- ChrisArchitect 29d agoSource: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/ https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374853)