Tuesday, July 21, 2020
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Waymo and Fiat Chrysler’s next big project is to develop self-driving Ram vans
Waymo and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have inked a deal to develop and test autonomous cargo vans and other light commercial vehicles designed to shuttle goods. The agreement is an expansion of a partnership that kicked off four years ago with a focus on self-driving Pacifica hybrid minivans meant to transport people.
The deal is the latest example of Waymo’s efforts to build out the delivery arm of its autonomous vehicle technology business. The two companies said the initial plan is to integrate Waymo’s self-driving stack — the suite of software and hardware that allows the vehicle to operate without a human behind the wheel —into FCA’s Ram ProMaster vans. These self-driving cargo vans will be used by Waymo Via, the company’s trucking and local delivery service.
However, it appears that the terms of the deal could extend far beyond Waymo Via. It’s possible that FCA could supply other transport companies with the self-driving vans (equipped with Waymo tech) through a licensing deal.
The companies said the partnership actually covers FCA’s entire portfolio of vehicles. The agreement between FCA and Waymo also extends to future affiliates, according to those familiar with the partnership. This point matters because FCA and French automaker Groupe PSA are in the process of merging into a newly formed corporation called Stellantis. If the 50-50 merger closes as expected in the first quarter of next year, the agreement would theoretically include all the brands that fall under Stellantis.
As broad as the Waymo-FCA agreement might be, the automaker has sought out other partners in the autonomous vehicle industry in varying capacities. FCA’s approach to rapid advancement of autonomous vehicle technology is to focus on vehicle-side needs while establishing smart and strategic collaborations that promote a culture of innovation, safety and know-how, the automaker previously told TechCrunch.
Last year, FCA and autonomous vehicle technology startup Aurora announced a partnership that was also focused on light commercial vehicles. FCA said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Aurora, an agreement that has since run its course, a spokesperson said. The two companies are still working on custom-built Pacifica hybrids, which Aurora is using in its testing, but they are not co-developing autonomous commercial vans.
“Over the last eighteen months, Aurora and FCA have collaborated closely in the specification, design, and development of custom-built Pacificas into which we’ve integrated the Aurora Driver,” Aurora said in an emailed statement. “Aurora looks forward to deploying our self-driving solution on FCA’s passenger and commercial vehicles.”
FCA is also supplying self-driving vehicle startup Voyage with purpose-built Pacifica Hybrids that have been developed for integration of automated technology. These vehicles come with customizations such as redundant braking and steering that are necessary to safely deploy driverless vehicles.
Waymo is best known for developing, testing and now launching an on-demand, ride-hailing business using self-driving passenger vehicles, namely the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans. A spokesperson reiterated that ride-hailing is still its most important business.
While Waymo has publicly talked about its ambitions for self-driving trucks, local delivery vans and even personal car ownership, the ramp-up of its Waymo One robotaxi service in Arizona has largely overshadowed those plans.
Waymo first integrated its self-driving system into Class 8 trucks and began testing them in Arizona in August 2017. Those tests stopped sometime later that year. The company didn’t bring back its truck testing to Arizona until May 2019.
Those early Arizona tests were aimed at gathering initial information about driving trucks in the region, while the new round of truck testing marked a more advanced stage in the program’s development, Waymo said at the time.
Waymo’s trucking program has had a higher profile since June 2019 when the company brought on 13 robotics experts, a group that includes Anki’s co-founder and former CEO Boris Sofman, to lead engineering in the autonomous trucking division.
Fiat Chrysler says it has signed an "exclusive" deal with Waymo on self-driving tech, ending its 18-month relationship with Amazon-backed Aurora (Financial Times)
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AMD launches Ryzen 4000G Series APUs for OEMs only New Zen+ 3000 Series Athlon CPUs also announced
AMD announced the availability of Ryzen 4000G series of APUs but has limited availability to OEMs only. This means DIY enthusiasts such as yourselves will not be able buy these new 4000G APUs in the retail market, yet. The AMD Ryzen 4000G APUs use the same Renoir mobile silicon as we saw in the recently launched Mobile 4000 series of processors. This makes the AMD Ryzen desktop 4000G processors based on the Zen2 architecture and not Zen3. The DIY Ryzen 4000 CPUs based on Zen3 microarchitecture are set for launch later this year. Since desktop hardware has more headroom, the Renoir Mobile 4000 APUs have been bumped up to fit the 35W and 65W power envelopes that desktop environments can easily handle. In all, AMD is launching 12 new 4000G series processors under the Ryzen 4000G and Ryzen 4000G Pro series, with the latter featuring AMD’s enterprise grade protection technologies.
The AMD Ryzen desktop 4000G series will see six Ryzen 4000G APUs and six Ryzen 4000G Pro APUs. The lineup is fairly simple, we see 3 core configurations in the stack starting from the Ryzen 3 4300G having 4 Cores / 8 Threads and going up to the Ryzen 7 4700G which has 8 Cores / 16 Threads. There’s a Ryzen 5 4600G in the middle with 6 Cores / 12 Threads. All of these three APUs are rated for 65W and they are accompanied by 35W ‘GE’ APUs that have the exact core and Turbo configuration. So a Ryzen 3 4300G (65W) and a Ryzen 3 4300GE (35W) have the exact same 4C/8T turbo configuration but different TDPs. The same pattern can be seen in the Pro series of APUs as well. The only exception happens to be the top SKU in the stack, i.e. the 4700GE and 4750GE whose Turbo clocks are lower than their 65W counterparts. Obviously, base frequencies are more in tune with the TDP so that’s different between the 65W and 35W variants.
MODEL
CORES
THREADS
TDP
BOOST
BASE FREQ
GPU CORES
GPU CLOCK
CACHE (MB)
AMD Ryzen 4000G OEM APUs
AMD Ryzen 7 4700G
8
16
65W
4.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
8
2.1 GHz
12 MB
AMD Ryzen 7 4700GE
8
16
35W
4.3 GHz
3.1 GHz
8
2.0 GHz
12 MB
AMD Ryzen 5 4600G
6
12
65W
4.2 GHz
3.7 GHz
7
1.9 GHz
11 MB
AMD Ryzen 5 4600GE
6
12
35W
4.2 GHz
3.3 GHz
7
1.9 GHz
11 MB
AMD Ryzen 3 4300G
4
8
65W
4.0 GHz
3.8 GHz
6
1.7 GHz
6 MB
AMD Ryzen 3 4300GE
4
8
35W
4.0 GHz
3.5 GHz
6
1.7 GHz
6 MB
AMD Ryzen 4000G PRO APUs
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G
8
16
65W
4.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
8
2.1 GHz
12MB
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750GE
8
16
35W
4.3 GHz
3.1 GHz
8
2.0 GHz
12MB
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
6
12
65W
4.2 GHz
3.7 GHz
7
1.9 GHz
11MB
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE
6
12
35W
4.2 GHz
3.3 GHz
7
1.9 GHz
11MB
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G
4
8
65W
4.0 GHz
3.8 GHz
6
1.7 GHz
6MB
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350GE
4
8
35W
4.0 GHz
3.5 GHz
6
1.7 GHz
6MB
All these APUs have support for DDR4-3200 memory and have eight PCIe 3.0 lanes since these were designed for single add-on cards. SLI or CrossFire are not seen in mobile form factors. This could be one of the reasons why we don’t see these processors being launched for the DIY market. Also, it should be noted that APUs are generally used in entry-level configurations which don’t feature discrete graphics cards so putting aside PCIe lanes for an add-on graphics card isn’t a priority.
The 4000G series of APUs in the above list will be supported by AM4 motherboards using the 400 and 500 series of chipsets.
New AMD Athlon Gold and Silver 3000 Zen+ APUsWhile the 3000 series APUs have been out for quite some time, AMD has decided to bolster their ranks with newer Athlon Gold and Athlon Silver SKUs as well as their PRO counterparts.
MODEL
CORES
THREADS
TDP
BOOST FREQ
BASE FREQ
Graphics Cores
L2/L3 CACHE
AMD Athlon 3000G APUs
Athlon™ Gold 3150G
4
4
65W
3.9 GHz
3.9 GHz
3
6 MB
Athlon™ Gold 3150GE
4
4
35W
3.8 GHz
3.8 GHz
3
6 MB
Athlon™ Silver 3050GE
2
4
35W
3.4 GHz
3.4 GHz
3
5 MB
AMD Athlon 3000G PRO APUs
AMD Athlon™ Gold PRO 3150G
4
4
65W
3.9 GHz
3.5 GHz
3
6MB
AMD Athlon™ Gold PRO 3150GE
4
4
35W
3.8 GHz
3.3 GHz
3
6MB
AMD Athlon™ Silver PRO 3125GE
2
4
35W
3.4 GHz
3.4 GHz
3
5MB
Performance wise, these Athlon 3000 APUs would be ranked below the Ryzen 3000 series APUs.
AMD Ryzen 4000 APUs for Desktop DIY EnthusiastsAMD always releases APUs based on a certain microarchitecture after the CPUs are out. So the 3000 Series Zen2 CPUs would be followed by the 4000 Series Zen2 APUs. Which is what we saw today, however, since these are Renoir desktop ports, we haven’t actually seen the DIY APUs yet and AMD is supposedly going to release them soon. Ideally, we’d like to see them before the Ryzen 4000 CPUs are launched but with the current DIY market in shambles thanks to Covid-19, AMD appears to be taking the cautious path or catering to demand rather than putting stuff out in the market and hoping for consumers to come.
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Carta’s former marketing VP is suing over gender discrimination after spearheading report on pay inequality
Emily Kramer joined the Silicon Valley company Carta to build up the company’s brand. Now, the company’s former VP of marketing is looking to shine a light on Carta for another reason: in a new lawsuit against Carta, which makes equity management software, Kramer accuses the eight-year-old outfit of gender discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and of violating the California Equal Pay Act.
Carta declined an interview request today, saying through a spokesperson that it isn’t commenting because the suit is a “pending legal matter.” But we spoke earlier this afternoon with Kramer, who has separately outlined her side of the story in detail in a Medium post, where she accuses the company of both unfair labor practices and of being disingenuous in its stated “commitment to transparency and equality in equity.”
The equality piece is certainly the bigger of the two issues, by Kramer’s own telling. She says she learned that she was underpaid when, in the summer of 2018, roughly six months after she joined Carta, it partnered with the women-led investment collective #ANGELS to produce a report that highlighted ownership of venture-backed companies’ equity by gender.
The suspicion driving the report — and later proved out by its findings — is that as with salary, where women continue to earn less than their male peers, they are also given less equity ownership in the startups for which they work. Kramer, who says she spearheaded the effort, posted the report, which included internal analysis that showed that Carta too, was allocating less equity to women than men.
In response, says the report, 40% of the women at Carta received an equity fix, compared to 32% of the men.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kramer, the only female executive at Carta at the time, says she discovered she was herself underpaid by $50,000 relative to her peers, and that her original equity grant was one-third of the same amount of shares paid to comparable employees, who she says were all men.
Indeed, at the crux of her suit against Carta is that equity grant. While on the heels of the report, the company bumped up her pay by $50,000 and provided her nearly 300,000 more stock options in addition to the 150,000 options she was originally provided, it declined to backdate or accelerate the options to account for the previous six months of her tenure.
That might not seem like such a big deal. But given Carta’s ever-soaring valuation — it was marked at half a billion dollars when Kramer joined the company and it was more recently assigned a $3 billion valuation by its investors — that’s tantamount to a “significant” amount money, notes Kramer. And she wasn’t about to leave it on the table.
The disparity wasn’t a complete shock to Kramer, who’d previously worked in marketing at Ticketfly, Asana, and Astro Technology (acquired by Slack) . According to her lawsuit, filed by attorney Sharon Vinick, Kramer emailed Carta’s founder and CEO, Henry Ward, when she was initially offered the job, noting that the equity offered was “lower than my expectations.”
According to Kramer, Ward told her that any more equity would be “unfair,” as compensation at her level was uniform for all employees. He also said Carta planned a company-wide review of its salaries and stock options later in the year, and that if it revealed that she was being underpaid, her compensation would be adjusted.
Clearly, Ward and Kramer have different views on whether or not that ultimately happened.
In our call with Kramer, she said still believes in the company’s mission to make equity more understandable for its users and that “therefore I believe it’s a solid product.”
She declined to say whether she has exercised any of her shares, but she said that Carta gives its employees a longer window to do this than many other startups. (How much time is is based in part on their tenure with the company, she’d added.)
Kramer also said that she hopes the company can “live up to” how it markets itself externally, as an ally of women who are paid less for the same amount of work.
Kramer says her experience inside of Carta — which still has an exclusively male board of directors — was not of a company that values women as much as men. She alleges that not only was she the only woman who reported directly to Ward during her tenure, but that two other VP-level execs who joined at roughly the same that she did were promoted to C-level positions despite having “less, and less relevant” work experience in their respective fields whereas her efforts to be promoted went nowhere. (Asked if there were other VP-level male colleagues who were also not promoted during the same period, Vinick said that no one at the time had a comparable role to Kramer, who grew to oversee 27 other people.)
Kramer adds that she stopped being included in meetings where a marketing head would normally be included, fundraising meetings among them, and believes that her efforts to remedy what she perceived as a “sexist culture” within the male-dominated company were at the root of all of these developments.
Eventually, Kramer says, she felt she was forced to resign after a meeting with Ward turned heated and he said Kramer was in violation of the company’s “no asshole policy.” When she wrote him two days later to resign, he wrote back within eight minutes, accepting her resignation and suggesting that both might learn from their experience working together.
Vinick, Kramer’s attorney, tells us Carta is being sued for emotional, punitive, and economic distress and says that now that her law firm has filed the suit, Carta will be served officially with the complaint within another week or two, at which point the discovery process can begin.
Carta does not ask its employees to sign arbitration clauses in their employment agreements, so unless it settles with Kramer or a judge finds some reason to dismiss the case, which seems unlikely, it could eventually head to trial.
In the meantime, the decision to sue is a big gamble for Kramer, but Vinick says she is proud of her client. “Standing up to these situations is an extraordinarily difficult and potentially career-limiting move to take,” but will ultimately help “shine a light on the problem of this equity gap.”
Carta has raised more than $600 million from investors to date, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures, and Goldman Sachs.
In April, as it was sealing it up its newest round of funding, it also conducted its first major layoff, parting ways with 161 employees. At the time, Business Insider spoke with eight former employees and one investor who described Carta as a “quickly changing company with huge vision but little focus, where hiring and hypergrowth” had become its core priorities.
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