The American car manufacturer Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has unveiled on Thursday a custom chip that is set to train Artificial-Intelligence networks in its data centers. The scientific breakthrough was showcased at the automaker’s live-streamed AI Day demonstrating the efforts of the company in the vertical integration field.
The chip called D1 is a part of Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer system. The chip relies on a 7-nanometer manufacturing process with 362 teraflops of processing power. According to Ganesh Venkataramanan, senior director of Autopilot hardware, Tesla placed 25 D1 chips on a “training tile” and of the tiles, 120 came together across several server cabinets, making an exaflop of power, said, Venkataraman.
“We are assembling our first cabinets pretty soon,” said Venkataramanan, who previously worked at chipmaker AMD. The engineer added that the company’s chip will be the fastest AI-training computer. Models can rely on the chips to recognize a variety of items from video feeds that Tesla’s cameras recorded. The process requires extensive computing work.
