Waymo has introduced its 5nm ASIC, a purpose-built chip engineered exclusively for the real-time conversion of raw sensor data from robotaxis’ lidar, radar and camera sensors before they reach the vehicle’s core machine learning brain. The chip can deliver more than 1,000 trillion operations per second, ensuring that driving commands can be executed by the vehicle in milliseconds. The chip is just one step in Waymo’s move away from off-the-shelf components towards custom syst