Obviously a company that makes RAM will say RAM is important, what else would we expect?
I’d love to know what Waymo vehicles have though.
Micron says driverless cars and robots will need 300GB of RAM
Submitted 2 weeks ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/111785-micron-driverless-cars-robots-need-300gb-memory.html
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They saw Jensen say engineers should be burning tokens to keep warm and thought “fuck it, let’s do this”.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
LIDAR. They have lidar.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“You knownthat thing we sell? Buy a shitload of it.”
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More like, you know that thing we used to sell and now we don’t because we bet everything on ai datacenters? Well now we bet on robots because we raised the price so high nobody will afford to buy that thing we used to sell and we can’t go back to that price because the line must go up!
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
I’m reading that headline as: Major electronics company explains why self driving cars and home robots will be unaffordable.
Kushan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Only because of current RAM prices and artificial scarcity keeping those prices high.
300GB of RAM shouldn’t be that expensive. I have 1/3 of that in my server (bought years ago). If it wasn’t for the AI bullshit, 300GB would be fairly reasonable to buy in a couple of years time.
8oow3291d@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
RAM used to be ~$4/GB. So 300*4=$1200. A price increase of $1200 is actually pretty darn affordable to get self driving, surely?
Sure, there are other components than RAM needed. But the RAM is not what would make it unaffordable.
vane@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I imagine pople stealing RAM from cars.
dan69@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like catalytic converters?
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No way they would make it upgradable or user serviceable lol
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They just get really fast and accurate with soldering irons. Until later ones come along absolutely surgical with a flame thrower.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
no, they’ll just buy RAMDoubler!
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How? It’s soldered on.
Kandinsky@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
I’m not saying that’s realistic, but I imagine my cyberpunk thieves now with portable soldering stations and microscopes
ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
when the loot chests move around the map
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Whoever at micron that said this is obviously some novel kind of idiot.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Old kinda idiot. Marketing Dept pumping stock with “white paper”.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
With the current level of tech in a car, you’re already likely pushing 300GB in total. There’s dozens of high-compute ECUs doing all sorts of things, running some *nix OS and using anywhere from a couple GB to well… way more.
to reach full driverless capability, those will need to become more powerful, the software will require more memory, and the number of compute modules will likely increase as well for sensors and other stuff.
300GB IMO is probably a conservative estimate.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’m not trying to sound angry at you, but I’m told I come off that way. So please let me start this with an advanced apology.
We have the esp32 in very common circulation. We have seen what is required to keep a thing fucking airborne, and it is so beyond what I thought was possible twenty years ago. And they did it with <1 gig.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
With the current level of tech in a car, you’re already likely pushing 300GB in total.
The actual article (and the call it is reporting on, with statements from the CEO) says that 16GB is the average in new cars today. No need to make stuff up.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They think that makes them sound smart and important.
It actually makes them sound incompetent.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
We went to the moon with Kbs and now cars need Gbs?
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
There is a lot less traffic/pedestrians in space.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
We went to the moon with rooms of women with pencils.
BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Each will also need a portable nuclear reactor and a swimming pool filled with the blood of innocents and ice cubes made out of children’s tears.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
What the hell does the President of France know about RAM!? /s
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No no no no no! That’s Emmanuel MAcron! This is his little brother, Emmanuel MIcron!
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I definitely misread Micron as Macron, and was confused why the French president was chiming in on this conversation
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Of course they do. They are extremely impartial on the matter and I trust their judgment.
sleet01@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ah, yes, the ol’ “X needs 300 of whatever it is I sell” gambit.
Link@rentadrunk.org 2 weeks ago
I’m sure Micron aren’t bias at all…
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is like an oil company saying you will need more oil.
garbage_world@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This sounds reasonable
ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shovel vendor forecasts massive uptick in hole digging.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The RAM cartel says things need to use more RAM. …k
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
If I were the boss of a RAM company, would I say then that the world needs more rubber tires, or would I say the world needs more RAM?
Chivera@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is their ram going to become the new catalytic converters
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t Musk promise like a decade ago that Tesla self driving would run fine on their “hardware v2” computer, then a few years later that it would require v3, and then v4 before he finally stopped making such promises?
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Micron make RAM. I don’t think we should give any more credence to their claims than we do to Elon’s. Their goal here is to pump their share price, nothing more.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Nah, it just needs a team of Indian guys to step in whenever the collision alarms go off.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
300? Come on. We all know it comes in powers of 2.
AI write that?
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I literally don’t want self driving cars. Fucking stop.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
it’s funny because I can run a coral TPU on 4gb that can identify obstacles in live streams.
I’m a fucking genius for figuring it out. make me the CTO of Micron and I will share my knowledge.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This is not credible. A self promoting stock pump and dump PR. Vision AI models are smaller than text models. They do need fast/faster GPUs, but less memory. Very narrow purposed AI/Neural Network models need less memory because the memory is more about storing facts than logic/reasoning capability. LLM breakthroughs in benchmark score/GB are currently having more gains by smaller models than frontier largest models. 32gb is a reasonable ceiling for memory requirement. Robots can swap in task specific AI models as well.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
L0 ADAS for life, baby!
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Comma AI can do it with far far less.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Bullshit.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No no no. See, this is why AI is so fucked up. It doesn’t matter if it’s human or driverless. Car’s aren’t supposed to RAM anything!!!
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 weeks ago
They should dodge not ram.
confuser@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not enough dodge too much RAM 👌