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Tesla claims to have ‘world’s most advanced computer for autonomous driving
’ with Autopilot 3.0 update coming next year
标题：Tesla 声称拥有"世界上最先进的自动驾驶电脑"，并将于明年推出Autopilot 3.0
Tesla is finally ‘letting the cat out of the bag’ when it comes to its new
custom-built chip for the next generation Autopilot.
Tesla 终于公开了他们为下一代AP 定制的新芯片
The automaker claims that it now has the ‘world’s most advanced computer
for autonomous driving’ that will be released in an upgrade to current
owners next year.
将于明年升级给现有车主。
Back in 2016, we first exclusively reported on Tesla quietly hiring legendary
chip architect Jim Keller from AMD and we were fairly excited by the
implications of Tesla hiring such an important chip architect.
早在2016年，我们首次专门报导Tesla 悄悄聘请了AMD的传奇芯片架构师Jim Keller，
我们对Tesla 聘请如此重要的芯片架构师所带来的影响感到非常兴奋。
At the time, we speculated that Tesla could be looking into making its own
silicon at some point – speculation that was further reinforced after Keller
’s hiring was followed by a team of chip architects and executives from AMD
also joining Tesla.
当时，我们推测Tesla 可能会考虑在某个时候制造自己的芯片 - 在招聘Keller 之后，
来自AMD的芯片架构师和团队也加入了特斯拉，市场的猜测得到进一步加强。
Finally, our suspicions were confirmed two years later when Elon Musk
confirmed that Tesla is working on its own AI chip.
最后，我们的怀疑在两年后证实，当时Elon Musk 证实Tesla 正在开发自己的AI 芯片。
Keller has since left Tesla, but the team is now led by Pete Bannon, who were
amongst the other chip architects hired by Tesla over 2 years ago.
Keller 离开了Tesla，但该团队现在由Pete Bannon 领导，他们是Tesla 2年前聘请的
其他芯片架构师。
During Tesla’s earnings call today, Bannon confirmed that they have now
produced the chip and have it working in test vehicles on the road.
在Tesla 今天的财报电话会议上，Bannon 证实他们现在已经在生产芯片
并将它装测试车辆中上路测试。
Bannon said that the new chip will be released in a new ‘hardware 3’ suite
for Autopilot which will take the form of a new computer that will replace
the existing computer in the vehicles with Autopilot hardware 2.0 and 2.5,
which have been in production since October 2016.
Bannon 表示新芯片将在对应AP 的"硬件3"新套件中发布，它将取代自2016年10月开始
生产的那些使用AP 2.0 和2.5 硬件的车辆中的现有电脑。
Musk added that he believes that the new computer that they’ve developed is
an order of magnitude better than what they can buy now.
Musk 补充说，他相信他们开发的新电脑比他们现在购买的电脑好一个数量级。
(Nvidia 表示不服 XD)
The computer in the Autopilot 2.0 hardware suite is powered by Nvidia GPUs.
Musk says that it is capable of processing 200 frames per second and Tesla’s
hardware 3 will be able to handle 2,000 frames per second with redundancy.
Autopilot 2.0硬件套件中的电脑由Nvidia GPU 驱动。
Musk 表示它的处理速度达到200 fps，而Tesla 的硬件3套件处理速度将超过2000 fps。
He explained that they achieved that by building the chip from the ground up
to act as a ‘neural network accelerator’ based on the neural net that Tesla
’s AI and vision team have been building.
他解释说，他们通过从头开始构建芯片来实现这一目标，
将芯片做为基于Tesl AI 和视觉团队一直在构建的神经网络的"神经网络加速器"。
Bannon and Musk reiterated that the new computer will be offered as an
upgrade to current Autopilot 2.0 (and up) owners by simply swapping the
current computer.
Bannon 和Musk 重申，通过简单地交换目前的电脑，
将可为当前的Autopilot 2.0(及以上) 的车主升级新电脑。
Earlier this year, we took a close look at the current computer in Model S,
Model X, and Model 3 with Autopilot 2.5.
今年早些时候，我们仔细研究了使用AP 2.5 的Model S/X/3 中的电脑。
Tesla has previously said that this upgrade will be offered for free since
Tesla has been advertising Autopilot 2.0 cars as being fully autonomous ready
and therefore, any upgrade to make it fully autonomous should be free.
Tesla 此前曾表示，此次升级将免费提供，因为Tesla 已经将AP 2.0 汽车宣传为
完全自主的，因此任何使其完全自主的升级都应该是免费的。
Bannon said the upgrade is planned for next year.
Bannon 说这项升级计划于明年实施。
In the meantime, Tesla is still planning to improve Autopilot on the current
hardware with software version 9 coming in ‘4 weeks’.
与此同时，Tesla 仍计划在现有硬件上改进Autopilot，软件版本v.9 将在4周内发送。
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这是Tesla 首度证实了他们自制的芯片已经在测试中
以前我在这篇文章中有提到关于Keller 大神离职的事情：
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当时我认为Keller 离职代表的是Tesla 的自主芯片研发已经接近完成
现在看来的确是这样，现在证实已经用在真实车辆上测试了
这大概是今天电话会议中最重要的消息
这比每股亏损高于预期、收入也高于预期、盘后大涨9.x% 要重要多了
这代表Tesla 是目前唯一一间有自己的自动驾驶AI 芯片的车厂
另外一间有自己的AI 芯片的汽车相关公司是Waymo，但它并不生产汽车
Waymo 想要做的是买车来改装，创建自己的全自动驾驶车队
可能的话再将此套件卖给车厂
而Tesla 想要做的是不管车主有没有花钱买全自动驾驶套件，只要是从Tesla 生产的车
都会有全自动驾驶硬件
当然其他车厂也可以向Nvidia 或Intel(mobileye) 买自驾芯片
但除了硬件之外，对于全自动驾驶来说，就是发展算法(软件)需要的测试里程资料了
Waymo 有自己的车队(未来过几年大概会成长到接近10万辆这量级)可以蒐集
而Tesla 则是目前就有10几20几万辆能在路上蒐集资料(当然需要车主同意)
今年Tesla 预估应该会卖出20几万辆新车，明年应该可以来到50万辆
所以在蒐集测试里程这件事情上，Tesla 跟Waymo 都有很大的先行优势
这些有点扯远了...
回到免费更换 3.0硬件这件事情上，这对于消费者来说应该是再好不过的消息了