When Elon Musk at a recent conference on the release of a new hardware platform for autopilot electric Tesla Motors, touched phase selection component supplier, he admitted that the choice between AMD and NVIDIA was not the easiest. Associates Electrek.co site resulted comments mask in a broader context. He explained that Tesla Motors developed on the base of neural networks the system is only slightly dependent on the specific hardware platform - it could work on components AMD, as and the NVIDIA, and Intel.
We did pick the NVIDIA Titan GPU as the main chip for the neural net But it was pretty tight call between particularly between AMD and NVIDIA But ultimately we felt that NVIDIA had the better hardware..".
The newest system DRIVE PX GP106 uses 2 GPUs with Pascal architecture and related processors Tegra, but NVIDIA Titan X desktop giant for use in vehicles is not adapted. The developer of graphics solutions would be forced to publish a brief blog post, explaining that "car supercomputer" new instances of the Tesla Model S and Tesla Model X - it's the same DRIVE PX 2 on the base of GP106 and / or Tegra. This module is already available commercially, and is no different from the other options offered by the rest of NVIDIA partners. As explained by representatives of the latter. Related Products :
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