Google’s Waymo to source autonomous driving chip from Samsung

SEOUL — Samsung Electronics a short while ago gained a job for Google mother or father Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous driving unit Waymo to establish chips for following-generation self-driving cars and trucks, South Korean media described on Monday.

Samsung will establish a chip that computes data collected from numerous sensors put in in autonomous cars or centrally controls capabilities by exchanging info with Google data centers in serious time, South Korean newspaper Herald Company described, citing an unnamed market resource.

The job is predicted to be carried out by Samsung’s logic chip progress division, it included.

Samsung Electronics declined to comment on client organization matters. Alphabet did not have an fast comment.