Baidu unveils AI chip to go in its fancy-pants robocar – and anywhere else someone may want to use it

Baidu, China's biggest search engine company, says it has started making an AI chip that will enable applications ranging from cloud services to autonomous cars. The 7nm process Kunlun II, announced yesterday at the annual Baidu World conference, has a max power consumption of 120W, and is claimed to be two to three times …

[Anonymous Coward]

Made in China ?

I believe Kunlun 1 was actually fabbed in Korea. Seems likely Kunlun 2 will also be built outside China, so while the design here appears impressive it doesn't help with reliance on external partners ....

[elsergiovolador]

Kill switch

Does it have an option to turn the car into an oncoming traffic if the scanner of user's iPhone finds a Winnie the Pooh picture?

[amanfromMars 1]

Chivalry is not dead whenever one <s>can afford to</s> be magnanimous

Curiously, Baidu filed with the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to sell senior notes last week.

That was extremely generous of Baidu ...to exercise themselves a very simple action that will allow billions of foreign assets to flow in their direction and into their direction in search of and in great expectation of greater shared dividends ..... common wealth.