# Waymo unveils 5nm sensor-processing ASIC for autonomous driving

_Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT · Robotics · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Waymo said it has developed a purpose-built 5nm ASIC to process, fuse and run neural networks on raw lidar, radar and camera data in real time. The company said the chip's specialized accelerators handle front-end processing and ML models with more than 1,000 TOPS of performance. Waymo said the hardware is part of a broader heterogeneous onboard compute system designed for low-latency driving decisions, redundancy and operation under vehicle vibration and temperature conditions.

## Sources

- [Waymo](https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/look-under-our-trunk)

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