In a little more than a decade, Tesla’s computer chips will be able to perform more operations than the human brain, if the car manufacturer continues improving its technology.
The electric car company’s new microchip, the D1, manages 362 trillion operations per second, the measure of a computer’s processing power. The power of the chip is already working at over 36% of what the human brain can, which is capable of one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) operations per second, according to a study by Vanarama.
“These chips have been instrumental in Tesla’s existing automated driving functions, but there is so much more potential over the next decade,” the company said.
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Tesla’s microchips are increasing in capability at a rate of 486% every year. By analyzing the company’s first chip, an Nvidia component from 2016, Vanarama found that it managed only 12 trillion operations each second, while the D1 chip will manage 362 trillion, a giant increase in the span of only six years.
Based on the growth of Tesla chips from 2016 to 2022, it would take the chips 17 years to have the processing power of a mature human brain, much sooner than an actual human brain, which takes 25 years to mature.
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On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on social media that it will not be long “before we view gasoline cars the same way we view steam engines today.”
Won’t be long before we view gasoline cars the same way we view steam engines today
— Naughtius Maximus (@elonmusk) September 12, 2022
