Some details have emerged about the SoC chip that was developed for use in the now canceled Apple Car, project titan.
The SoC that would be used in Apple's first car was going to be equivalent to about four M2 Ultra's, or about 96 CPU and 240 GPU cores. The SoC would also have about 7 times more transistors than an RTX4090.
I'm not sure why the car needed such a powerful computer, but I can see why Project Titan was cancelled for not being a financially viable product - having a single component in your car, a SoC, that costs like $20k is a problem. The only other $20k single components on cars these days would be a massive battery pack on an EV and people just barely accept that, imagine it costs $40k just for the battery and computer on the Apple car
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The SoC that would be used in Apple's first car was going to be equivalent to about four M2 Ultra's, or about 96 CPU and 240 GPU cores. The SoC would also have about 7 times more transistors than an RTX4090.
I'm not sure why the car needed such a powerful computer, but I can see why Project Titan was cancelled for not being a financially viable product - having a single component in your car, a SoC, that costs like $20k is a problem. The only other $20k single components on cars these days would be a massive battery pack on an EV and people just barely accept that, imagine it costs $40k just for the battery and computer on the Apple car
Apple Silicon Equivalent To Four M3 Ultra SoCs With A Theoretical 536 Billion Transistors Was ‘Nearly Finished’ For The Self-Driving Car Project
The Apple Silicon team was heavily involved with ‘Project Titan’ and developed an SoC equal to four M2 Ultra chips before development was halted
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