<div dir="ltr">Waymo announced its first custom in-house silicon designed for its 6th-generation robotaxis, including the Zeekr-built Waymo Ojai.<br><br>Key Details<br><br>5nm Custom ASIC: Fabricated using TSMC\u2019s 5-nanometer process, the custom application-specific integrated circuit delivers more than 1,000 TOPS of machine-learning performance for front-end sensor fusion and real-time processing.<br>Sensor Processing: The chip processes raw data simultaneously from 13 high-resolution cameras, 4 LiDAR sensors, and 6 radar sensors. It handles tasks including temporal denoising for improved low-light vision, dense transformer models, and sparse convolution models.<br>Heterogeneous Architecture: Waymo continues to use a hybrid computing architecture alongside its custom silicon. Its technology partners and suppliers include NVIDIA, AMD, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, Socionext, and TSMC.<br>Vehicle Integration: The compute system integrates directly with the Ojai\u2019s liquid-cooling system for reliability in extreme weather conditions. It is also designed to preserve passenger luggage space and includes dual-engine redundancy for fail-operational safety.<br><br>Official Announcements<br><br>Waymo Blog \u2014 A Look Under Our Trunk: What\u2019s in Our Compute:<br><a href="https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/">https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk/</a><br><br>Waymo \u2014 6th-Generation Waymo Driver Announcement:<br><a href="https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/ro-on-6th-gen-waymo-driver/">https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/ro-on-6th-gen-waymo-driver/</a><br><br>News Coverage<br><br>The Next Web \u2014 Waymo Built Its Own Robotaxi Chip and Published Its Supplier List:<br><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/waymo-custom-chip-robotaxi-tsmc-ojai">https://thenextweb.com/news/waymo-custom-chip-robotaxi-tsmc-ojai</a><br><br>Electric Vehicles \u2014 Waymo Reveals Custom 5nm Chip Powering Its Robotaxis:<br><a href="https://eletric-vehicles.com/waymo/waymo-reveals-custom-5nm-chip-powering-its-robotaxis/">https://eletric-vehicles.com/waymo/waymo-reveals-custom-5nm-chip-powering-its-robotaxis/</a><br><br>Seeking Alpha \u2014 Waymo Built a \u201cData Center on Wheels\u201d to Power Its Driverless Cars:<br><a href="https://seekingalpha.com/news/4635507-waymo-built-a-data-center-on-wheels-to-power-its-driverless-cars">https://seekingalpha.com/news/4635507-waymo-built-a-data-center-on-wheels-to-power-its-driverless-cars</a><br><br>YouTube<br><br>Waymo Official YouTube Channel:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/waymo">https://www.youtube.com/waymo</a><br><br>Waymo Tech &amp; AI Overview Video:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtMMW0kTXIE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtMMW0kTXIE</a></div>