The event took place in Long Beach, Calif. Musk attended the event with Jim Keller, Tesla's vice president of hardware business, and Musk talked about providing Keller's information To AI hardware that the company is developing and Keller is a former chip architect at AMD.Mask said: 'Jim is developing specialized AI hardware and we think it will be the best in the world.'
At Tesla, this specialized hardware may in the future be able to support the computations required to complete fully automated driving Tesla's autopilot hardware system now relies on NVIDIA technology As early as September, technology media CNBC Has reported Tesla's AI chip work.
Several other car makers, including Ford and GM, are developing driverless technology. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has developed custom chips that will replace Nvidia, People driving car company Waymo. Apple has never given up the pursuit of driverless technology, and it has also developed custom silicon to handle AI workloads on mobile devices.
In his talk Thursday, Keller decided to use custom hardware to boost efficiency, while Musk talked about power and cost advantages, and Musk also provided a prediction for fully autonomous driving that could be a reality within two years. It is still unclear whether Tesla will start selling cars with custom hardware and the company has not immediately responded to a press comment.