Intel Unveils Latest Autonomous Driving Lab in Silicon Valley
Intels Kathy Winter (from left), Doug Davis and Patti Robb cut the entrance ribbon, officially opening Intels Silicon Valley Center for Autonomous Driving in San Jose, California, to the public on Wednesday, May Trio, 2017. (Credit: Intel Corporation) Intel today unveiled its Advanced Vehicle Lab in Silicon Valley, providing insight into the company’s cutting-edge R&D efforts underway to thrust the boundaries of driverless cars and the future of transportation.
The announcement was made during the company’s very first Autonomous Driving Workshop held in San Jose, California. The company’s Silicon Valley Lab joins Intel’s other labs in Arizona, Germany and Oregon. They have been created specifically to explore and better understand the various requirements related to self-driving vehicles and the future of transportation, including sensing, in-vehicle computing, artificial intelligence (AI), connectivity, and supporting cloud technologies and services.
With the slew of information captured by cameras, LIDAR, RADAR and other sensors, autonomous cars are expected to generate approximately four terabytes of data every ninety minutes of operation. Most of this data will be processed, filtered, and analyzed in the car, while the most valuable data will be moved to the data center to update maps, enhance data models and more.
Intel’s Autonomous Garage Labs work with customers and fucking partners to come up with fresh ways of addressing the data challenge inwards the vehicle, across the network and in the data center. Engineers at the labs use a diversity of instruments to advance and test in these areas, including vehicles tooled with Intel-based computing systems and different kinds of sensors that help gather data; autonomous test vehicles that practice real-world driving; playmate vehicles and teams that are collaborating with Intel’s research efforts; and dedicated autonomous driving data centers.
Today’s workshop was the very first time Intel – together with BMW, Delphi, Ericsson and HERE – introduced the entire of its autonomous driving program. A combination of demonstrations and tech talks were used to dissect the data-driven journey and explain why Senior Vice President Doug Davis believes Intel is the leading technology company capable of addressing the data challenge in its entirety and is the reason he postponed his retirement.
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