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16 PCB007 MAGAZINE I APRIL 2018 just some of the latest announcements made on this topic since the start of 2018. These an- nouncements are from companies such as In- tel, Nvidia, Amazon, Volkswagen, Cisco, Al- phabet, Microsoft, various traditional car man- ufacturers, and others (Figure 5): • Nvidia introduced powerful new chip technology (Xavier) focused on autonomous cars • Nvidia announced that the Xavier chipset is now in production and will ship to select automotive partners and customers within the next few months (Xavier can do 20 trillion deep learning operations per second) • Nvidia announced that its Drive IX and Drive AR software kits are in use by Volkswagen for their electric buses and they are also partnering with Uber, Baidu and the Aurora startup for their upcoming driverless cars • Alphabet's (Google's holding company) self-driving car, now called Waymo, announced it now has over 4 million miles of real driving experience performed in cities such as Mountain View, California; Austin, Texas; and Phoenix, Arizona Figure 5: Prediction regarding time to implementation in the evolution of driverless cars, according to SAE International. (Source: MarketWatch)