It’s been a rough few months for Mobileye, maker of the assisted driving platform used in cars from automaker Tesla. The two have been at odds over what caused recent Tesla accidents, with the car maker blaming Mobileye’s system.
Tesla is now developing its own platform for assisted driving, and Mobileye — having denied responsibility for the Tesla accidents — is moving on. It is designing a next-generation chip called EyeQ5, which will be used as the brains for fully autonomous cars by 2020.
The chip will have a new 64-bit MIPS CPU from Imagination Technologies, which has been dealing with struggles of its own. This year, the company has sold off assets and laid off employees but retained the MIPS CPU used in handsets, wearables, servers and internet of things devices.
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Source: COMPUTER WORLD