BMW and Volkswagen Challenge Apple and Google in the Tech Race

BMW and Volkswagen Try to Beat Apple and Google at Their Own Game<br />Reinhard Stolle said that The processing power needed to deal with all this data is orders of magnitude larger than what we are used to,<br />Bosch, the electronics maker based in a suburb of Stuttgart, said Monday<br />that it would invest 1 billion euros, or $1.1 billion, to build a new factory in Dresden to produce chips for a variety of applications, including the sensors used in self-driving cars.<br />That is much more than could be efficiently transmitted over the internet to remote data storage facilities operated<br />by outside providers in the "cloud." "A large part of the data center has to be on premises," Mr. Stolle said.<br />Scott Aaronson said that If this were an application where D-Wave were actually faster, then it would be the first time we’d ever seen that,<br />Volkswagen, a German company, recently joined the handful of large corporations worldwide<br />that are customers of D-Wave Systems, a Canadian maker of computers that apply the mind-bending principles of quantum physics.<br />The moves are part of an expanding effort by European carmakers<br />and suppliers to build the computing capacity — so-called big data — they will need as vehicles digitize and become driverless.