General Motors’ autonomous driving unit Cruise has developed its chips for its autonomous vehicles, so it’s making its own. Based on what Carl Jenkins, the company’s VP for Hardware Engineering, told Reuters. The company aims to bring down costs and scale up volume, executives said Tuesday.
Carl Jenkins told the news organization that “Two years ago, we were paying a lot of money for a GPU from a famous vendor,”, referring to NVIDIA. He also explained that Cruise couldn’t negotiate because it wasn’t mass manufacturing autonomous vehicles just yet. This technology is in its experimental stages, and it recently became the first company to secure permission to charge for driverless rides.
