Alphabet's Waymo Has Built a Custom Chip for Its Robotaxis

Archive link: https://archive.is/pi8xy

> The chip is made using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 5-nanometer technique, Waymo said.

It's great to see alternatives to NVIDIA chips coming up, but this really highlights the underlying bottleneck that is TSMC's dominance in the manufacturing of these devices.

Source: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374853)