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Volkswagen's self-driving car revolution
Teaming up with tech titans for a driverless dream
Volkswagen has partnered with Mobileye to turbocharge its motors with nifty automated driving tech.
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Intel plans to spin off its programmable chip business
Intel will retain a majority stake
Intel said it will treat its programmable chip unit as a standalone business and wants to spin it off through an IPO in two to three years.
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Chipzilla spends $25 billion on a new factory in Israel
Largest international investment in Israel
US chipmaker Intel will spend $25 billion on a new factory in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, calling it the largest-ever international investment in the country.
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Chipzilla to make its self-driving car unit public
Mobileye plans IPO
Intel is planning to make its self-driving-car unit Mobileye a public company in the middle of next year -- an IPO which could value the Israeli unit at more than $50 billion
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Intel's Mobileye tests AVs in Gotham City
If it can make it there, it can make it anywhere
Mobileye, the company that specialises in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles, is now testing its AVs in New York City. This is a bit tricky because New York has harsh restrictions around such testing.
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MobileEye mocks Nvidia as a copycat
Your stuff is rather similar
MobileEye boss Amnon Shashua took a swing at the GPU company named after a Roman vengeance demon.
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Intel chooses Jerusalem for self-driving tests
Because it's difficult
Part of Intel's attempt to re-engineer its business is getting into the self-driving business and now its Mobileye division said it has chosen Jerusalem to test its technology.
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Intel writes $13.5 billion cheque for MobileEye
Self-driving car software belongs to Chipzilla
Chipzilla has just written a $13.5 billion cheque to buy its Jerusalem-based partner MobilEye.