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GM Cruise executives give details about its custom chips for self-driving cars

by Meghana Kandra
September 14, 2022 - Updated On September 15, 2022
in Automobiles, Cars, Electric Vehicles
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General Motors Set to Fight Chip Shortage With Its Own Microchips by 2025
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The prices of components either continue to increase or stay high. General Motors’ Cruise reveals details of its customer chips that will power its self-driving vehicles. The company is looking at the long term, where autonomous cars would be built without any steering or pedals.

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General Motors Set to Fight Chip Shortage With Its Own Microchips by 2025
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Furthermore, the plan is to deploy self-driving cars with their own custom chips by 2025. With these changes, they are going to reduce costs and scale up the volume.  Cruise is taking a page out of Tesla’s playbook, switching from Nvidia Corp products to customized chips to power their vehicles. “Two years ago, we were paying a lot of money for a GPU from a famous vendor,” Carl Jenkins, head of Cruise hardware, told Reuters in an apparent reference to Nvidia, a leading maker of graphics processing units, or GPUs.

“There is no negotiation because we’re a tiny volume. We couldn’t negotiate at all. So that’s why I said, okay, then we have to take control of our own destiny,” he said during a tour of the Cruise R&D workshop in San Francisco. Cruise executives this week for the first time have given details about its custom chips that will power its Origin vehicle with no pedals or steering wheel. Jenkins said in-house chip development required investments, but this would be recouped by scaling up the production of cars that use multiple chips. He declined to say how much the company was investing in the project.

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Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt said on Monday the custom chips would help Origin “hit that sweet spot from a cost perspective” in 2025 and personal ownership of autonomous vehicles would be viable from then on. That follows comments by GM CEO Mary Barra earlier this year that they would develop a “personal autonomous vehicle” by mid-decade. Cruise had developed four in-house chips so far – a computing chip called Horta, the main brains of the car, Dune which processes data from the sensors, a chip for the radar, and one that it would announce later, Jenkins said.

The sensors and computing chips would also reduce power consumption, helping to increase driving range. Gaurav Gupta, a chip analyst at Gartner, said automakers were increasingly trying to design chips and systems in-house to have greater control over product development and supply chains. “Will they be successful or not is a different question as it isn’t easy,” he said. Ann Gui, Cruise’s silicon lead, said the Horta chip was based on an ARM processor as that was what was available when chip development started two years ago.

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Meghana studied PGD in Journalism, open university. She has more than five years of experience in content writing, from creative content development to online journalism. Electric vehicle enthusiast, engineer, and feminist.

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