RE: Super Cruise to be expanded. Ultra ditched23 Jan 2024 07:55
“Supercruise has flopped because GM hasn’t been willing to admit or step up to the needs for modernized processing power in the car”
GM is waiting for Qualcomm to start producing the 4nm Ride platform chip very soon. I DOUBT GM will not try to develop Ultra-Cruise. I think they are just waiting to have the chips in mass production to install it in a bunch of cars coming this year including the upgraded Escalade 2025 ICE and Escalade IQ to then later (maybe 1-2 years from now) release the first versions of UltraCruise. I assume GM knows it is a matter a life or death for them if they DON’T develop their own “FSD”. What they did with Super Cruise works better than other similar software from the competition, so why would they stop there?
I tried to obtain some info from Qualcomm after/during CES a few days ago but I couldn’t find a date for the mass production of the 4nm Ride chip that they announced at last year’s CES (Last year they said mass production was scheduled to start at the beginning of 2024, now they just said 2024 without specific date).
I think Tesla’s lates Hardware 4 chip is made using 7nm or maybe 10nm (I have not been able to find this info), so Qualcomm’s chip will have MORE processing power than Tesla HW4 I think, and will consume less power and require less cooling. Having that kind of hardware available will be the best moment to push for UltraCruise and I think they will at least try it, or better they are already developing it and testing it with the sample chips that Qualcomm is already producing.'
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/01/gm-may-be-canceling-ultra-cruise/
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