I'm sorry but I'm finding it really difficult to watch this and match up what the engineer is saying to what Elon Musk is saying.
For example, the engineer says the custom ASIC does 144 TOps for 2 chips vs the NVidia drive Xavier - does 21 TOps. Okay, well yeah I expect your custom ASIC does have a nice performance advantage over the equivalent GPU. at 3.5x advantage probably seems reasonable. Cue Elon Musk:
"At first seems improbable, how could it be that Tesla, who has never designed a chip before would design the best chip in the world but that is objectively what has occured. Not the best by a small margin, the best by a huge margin".
Mate, it's a dot product with some memory attached, and not a single detail your half hour deep dive has gone into suggests anything other than a bog standard ASIC.
"All the cars being produced right now have all the hardware necessary for full self-driving"
And this is where I'm totally lost. I want to believe! But he's lied so many times now. This man is sucking the credibility out of every engineer in the room. Don't repeat the same lie twice.
For example, the engineer says the custom ASIC does 144 TOps for 2 chips vs the NVidia drive Xavier - does 21 TOps. Okay, well yeah I expect your custom ASIC does have a nice performance advantage over the equivalent GPU. at 3.5x advantage probably seems reasonable. Cue Elon Musk:
"At first seems improbable, how could it be that Tesla, who has never designed a chip before would design the best chip in the world but that is objectively what has occured. Not the best by a small margin, the best by a huge margin".
Mate, it's a dot product with some memory attached, and not a single detail your half hour deep dive has gone into suggests anything other than a bog standard ASIC.
"All the cars being produced right now have all the hardware necessary for full self-driving"
And this is where I'm totally lost. I want to believe! But he's lied so many times now. This man is sucking the credibility out of every engineer in the room. Don't repeat the same lie twice.