On the Dash: Waymo’s new 5nm chip gives its robotaxis a big boost in raw processing power. The company says Computing power has scaled 20 times over the past eight years. Waymo still partners with AMD, Nvidia, TSMC and others on hardware. Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle unit, Waymo, built its own computer chip to help its robotaxis react faster on the road, the company said Thursday. The chip is called an ASIC, short for application-specific integrated circuit. It handles the flood of data coming in from a robotaxi’s cameras, radar and lidar sensors, and processes that data before passing it to Waymo’s driving software. Waymo said the goal is faster, sharper…
