Toyota shows off SoC that stores model weights and its OS on integrated memory

Japanese carmaker Toyota has decided to have a crack at the market for AI processors.

Toyota is the major shareholder in a company called AISIN, a manufacturer of automotive components.

The chip includes built-in STT-MRAM, which stores both model weights and an operating system.

“By combining 16x16, 16x8, and 8x8 bit multiplication, the amount of weight data for the AI model was reduced by 53 percent, from 17.7MB to 9.36MB, while maintaining 16-bit precision.”

AISIN is an established parts supplier and already sells to Toyota and other automakers but hasn’t said if or when it can get this chip into production.