AMD Is Building A Self-Driving Car AI Chip For Tesla

AMD has reportedly won another major semicustom chip design contract, this time around from Tesla..

Tesla has reportedly already received samples of the new semi-custom chip and is currently testing it. This is Tesla’s first attempt at making its own purpose-built AI chip and is said to be leveraging AMD IP mixed with its own. The company currently relies on GPUs from AMD’s rival, NVIDIA, for its self-driving cars..

The new AI chip is believed to be the first major step towards Tesla’s goal of delivering totally autonomous vehicles to consumers by 2019..

AMD shares are up 4.7% on the news and continue to climb in after-hours trading as of writing this.