Kodiak AI, a provider of physical AI-powered autonomous driving technology, has announced a collaboration with chipmaker AMD to integrate AMD EPYC Series processors into its seventh-generation autonomous truck platform. Kodiak is the first company to deploy these advanced CPUs in a driverless trucking hardware platform.
Key takeaways
- AMD EPYC CPUs aggregate and preprocess data from LiDAR, cameras, and radars, supporting path planning for the Kodiak Driver.
- The processors offer higher clock speeds and lower power consumption, improving data processing speed and enabling more sophisticated AI workloads.
- Using commercially available AMD hardware allows Kodiak to focus on scaling production-ready autonomous trucks, including its driverless fleet in the Permian Basin.
Driverless trucks require exceptional CPU performance, especially for latency-sensitive tasks like sensor processing and localization. AMD EPYC CPUs provide the compute power needed to handle these workloads efficiently. Kodiak aims to launch driverless trucks on public highways later this year.
Source: Robotics & Automation News (roboticsandautomationnews.com) · Published 2026-08-27 · “Kodiak AI and AMD collaborate to advance computing power for driverless trucking”