Pentagon will beat world to self driving cars
Published in Transportation


Never mind Tesla, Uber or Google

The Pentagon will be using self-driving vehicles before they arrive in the streets according to Michael Griffin, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.

Apple man in Tesla's self-driving car seat
Published in Transportation
Thursday, 26 April 2018 09:48

Apple man in Tesla's self-driving car seat


Pete Bannon takes Keller's driving wheel

Now that Jim Keller left Tesla for Intel, the new chap in control of Tesla's self-driving car is former PA Semi and Apple apostate Pete Bannon.

Autopilot was engaged in second fatal self-driving crash
Published in News


Tough one for Tesla X

On Friday, March 23rd a man identified as an Apple engineer and former EA programmer Walter Huang died in a fatal accident when his Tesla X hit a median barrier on Highway 101 in Mountain View. Tesla has now officially confirmed that autopilot was engaged.

Tesla faces claims of racial harassment
Published in News
Thursday, 19 October 2017 11:42

Tesla faces claims of racial harassment


Failed to tackle racial antagonism

Three former Tesla factory workers have filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming they were subject to constant racial discrimination and harassment in the electric car company's factories.

Tesla dumps Nvidia for AMD
Published in Graphics
Friday, 22 September 2017 11:30

Tesla dumps Nvidia for AMD


Wants to develop its own chip

Tesla has delivered a blow to Nvidia’s plans to dominate the AI car industry by abandoning work in Nvidia chips and moving to develop its own.

Intel gives up on Trump
Published in News
Tuesday, 15 August 2017 12:06

Intel gives up on Trump


The future is not bright and it is not orange

After a few months of trying to butter up Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump, Intel has decided to cut its losses.

Tesla installs camera inside car
Published in News
Thursday, 03 August 2017 06:00

Tesla installs camera inside car


What does it hope to learn about the driver?

The car maker Tesla might be finding itself in hot water after installing a camera inside the car to monitor the driver.

Nvidia officially announces the Tesla V100 card
Published in Graphics


12nm FinFET, PCIe interface, and 5120 CUDA cores

After talking about the new Volta GPU at the GPU Technology Conference earlier last month, Nvidia has now officially unveiled the PCIe-based Tesla V100 GPU accelerator, based on the GV100 GPU and offering 14 TFLOPs of single-precision compute performance.

Keller is building self-driving vehicles for Tesla
Published in News


Will take some time

Fudzilla has already mentioned Jim Keller, the hardware engineer that was one of the key people for finishing what was considered to be the overambitious AMD Zen CPU project. Keller now works for Tesla, and our well-informed friends confirmed that he is building a self-driving platform for the company. 

Tesla fires sexual discrimination complainer
Published in News


It was all untrue insists Tesla


The Apple of the car industry, Tesla, has a novel way of dealing with people who complain about sexual harassment and being paid less than males – it fires them.