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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has announced it will be joining forces with auto component manufacturer Delphi and the Israeli firm Mobileye that develops vision systems to power the self-driving cars of future. Intel’s role in the partnership will be to provide the processing power needed for the driver-less cars to function.
Typically, cars that are designed to drive on its own come equipped with radars, sensors, and/or cameras to make the car, suitably aware of its surroundings. However, continuously scanning the driving zone for vehicles, pedestrians, street markings, road signs or other obstacles while still running the various systems of the car and maintaining the correct course does require lots of processing power.
On the whole, it is almost akin to having supercomputers on every future car and it is here that Intel comes into the picture. As of now, it is the Core i7 chip that Intel is making available to Delphi and Mobileye for their testing purposes though the chipmaker has promised a more powerful unnamed processor that will be made available at a later date.
As Glen DeVos, Delphi’s vice president of engineering and services revealed, the plan will be to offer a means for even the mid-range cars to be able to drive on their own. And at the center of all the systems and components designed to achieve that objective will be an Intel chip that is estimated to allow for 20 trillion mathematical operations to be performed in a second.
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- 20 cores (8 P-cores plus 12 E-cores) and 28 threads. Integrated Intel UHD Graphics 770 included
- Up to 5.6 GHz with Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 gives you smooth game play, high frame rates, and rapid responsiveness
- Compatible with Intel 600-series (with potential BIOS update) or 700-series chipset-based motherboards
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If that seems too expensive, DeVos already hinted a future version having two to three times the processing power would be made available later on.
Competitors like Nvidia though aren’t too worried at the development given that they already have marked out a presence in the segment. It has been this July that Intel announced it is partnering Mobileye and BMW to provide the chips that BMW need to power its self-driving cars due out in 2021.
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- Game Without Compromise. Play harder and work smarter with Intel Core 14th Gen processors
- 20 cores (8 P-cores plus 12 E-cores) and 28 threads. Discrete graphics required
- Up to 5.6 GHz with Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 gives you smooth game play, high frame rates, and rapid responsiveness
- Compatible with Intel 600-series (with potential BIOS update) or 700-series chipset-based motherboards
- DDR4 and DDR5 platform support cuts your load times and gives you the space to run the most demanding games
Worth mentioning, Nvidia will be providing the processing backbone that Tesla needs to make its self-driving cars running efficiently.
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Quick Recap
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- Intel Core i7 3.60 GHz processor offers more cache space and the hyper-threading architecture delivers high performance for demanding applications with better onboard graphics and faster turbo boost
- The Socket LGA-1700 socket allows processor to be placed on the PCB without soldering
- 11 MB L2 and 25 MB L3 cache offers supreme performance for computation intensive apps
- Intel 7 Architecture enables improved performance per watt and micro architecture makes it power-efficient
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- 4 Cores / 8 Threads
- 3.60 GHz up to 4.20 GHz Max Turbo Frequency / 8 MB Cache. Sockets Supported: FCLGA1151, Max Memory Size: 64 GB, Memory Types: DDR4-2133/2400, DDR3L-1333/1600 at 1.35V
- Compatible only with Motherboards based on Intel 100 or 200 Series Chipsets
- Intel Optane Memory Supported
- Intel UHD Graphics 630
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- 8 Cores / 8 Threads
- 3.60 GHz up to 4.90 GHz / 12 MB Cache
- Compatible only with Motherboards based on Intel 300 Series Chipsets
- Intel Optane Memory Supported
- Intel UHD Graphics 630
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