Waymo develops application-specific integrated circuit for latest-generation robotaxis.

M2 EQUITYBITES-August 24, 2026--Waymo develops application-specific integrated circuit for latest-generation robotaxis

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Waymo, the autonomous driving subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, has announced that it has developed an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), which is in production for its latest-generation robotaxis.

The five nm chip will process raw sensor data, which includes LiDAR, radar and camera streams, in real time, feeding the company's onboard machine learning systems that power driving decisions.

The firm stated that the chip's specialised accelerators extract information from sensor streams instantly, which includes temporal denoising aimed at improving performance in low-light conditions, prior to passing data to Waymo's inference engine for sensor fusion.

The company stated that the ASIC delivers over 1,000 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of machine learning performance dedicated to front-end sensor processing.

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