Tesla reportedly hires Samsung to manufacture custom chips to power Autopilot

Tesla over the summer parted ways with Mobileye, the Israeli-based technology startup that had been supplying the electric automaker with silicon to power its autonomous driving system , following an accident involving a Model S that was traveling with Autopilot enabled. Unveiled at CES 2016, the Drive PX 2 is an absolute beast that packs two Tegra SoCs consisting of four in-house Denver cores and eight ARM Coretex-A57 cores plus two GPUs from the Pascal family.

AWS Expands Internet of Things Suite With GreenGrass Service For Real-Time Edge Applications

Amazon Web Services on Wednesday lifted the curtain on AWS GreenGrass, a new service it says will bring better compute capabilities for Internet of Things devices. CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas that GreenGrass will allow IoT devices to respond to local events in real time, operate offline, and reduce the cost of running IoT applications.

3D XPoint Technology

Intel Corporation and Micron Technology, Inc. today unveiled 3D XPointTM technology, a non-volatile memory that has the potential to revolutionize any device, application or service that benefits from fast access to large sets of data. Now in production, 3D XPoint technology is a major breakthrough in memory process technology.