Tesla CEO Elon Musk
According to CNBC Beijing time on December 8, Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed the development of custom artificial intelligence hardware at a company party Thursday, local time.
In an introduction to Jim Keller, the company's Vice President, Musk talked about Tesla's AI hardware, and Keller was a chip architect at AMD.
According to one person attending the party, 'Jim is developing proprietary artificial intelligence hardware that we consider to be world class.'
The dedicated hardware may one day be used in Tesla to complete the computational tasks required for autonomous driving, and Tesla's Autopilot hardware system now relies on NVIDIA graphics chips.
CNBC published an article in September last year that Tesla is developing artificial intelligence chips.
Autodesk technology is being developed by several other automakers, including Ford and General Motors, which has a custom chip developed by Waymo to replace NVIDIA graphics chips, and Autodesk is also developing autonomous driving technology Developed a custom chip that handles the artificial load of mobile phones.
According to information from Twitter, Keller said in a speech on Thursday that custom chips will help improve system efficiency, while Musk talks about energy consumption and cost advantages.
Musk also said it expects to complete the development of fully autonomous vehicles in two years.
It is unclear when Tesla sells vehicles with its own dedicated hardware.
Tesla did not comment.