{"id":77806,"date":"2018-04-14T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/china-hopes-to-build-the-chips-that-will-control-millions-of-driverless-cars"},"modified":"2018-04-14T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T13:00:17","slug":"china-hopes-to-build-the-chips-that-will-control-millions-of-driverless-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/china-hopes-to-build-the-chips-that-will-control-millions-of-driverless-cars","title":{"rendered":"China hopes to build the chips that will control millions of driverless cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-hopes-to-build-the-chips-that-will-control-millions-of-driverless-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s insatiable desire to build its own hardware naturally extends to the world of robo-taxis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Backstory:<\/strong> China has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602235\/chinas-bid-to-dominate-the-chip-industry-is-in-danger-of-falling-short\/\">made no secret<\/a> of wanting to design and produce huge numbers of its own chips. It\u2019s already gunning to build the processors that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/609954\/china-wants-to-make-the-chips-that-will-add-ai-to-any-gadget\/\">power an impending wave of artificial-intelligence hardware<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The news:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/2GjXKXX\/w.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-25\/china-seeks-its-own-brains-to-steer-30-million-autonomous-cars\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reports<\/a> that domestic firms are also expected to build the chips that will be the brains behind the nation\u2019s robotic cars. Startups like Horizon Robotics, founded by the former chief of Baidu\u2019s Institute of Deep Learning, are scrambling to build low-power devices that process data from sensors dotted around cars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610643\/china-hopes-to-build-chips-that-control-millions-of-driverless-cars\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2018-03-31&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/610643\/china-h...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s insatiable desire to build its own hardware naturally extends to the world of robo-taxis. Backstory: China has made no secret of wanting to design and produce huge numbers of its own chips. It\u2019s already gunning to build the processors that power an impending wave of artificial-intelligence hardware. The news: Bloomberg reports that domestic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}