BMW and Volkswagen Challenge Apple and Google in the Tech Race

BMW and Volkswagen Try to Beat Apple and Google at Their Own Game
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,
Bosch, the electronics maker based in a suburb of Stuttgart, said Monday
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.
That is much more than could be efficiently transmitted over the internet to remote data storage facilities operated
by outside providers in the "cloud." "A large part of the data center has to be on premises," Mr. Stolle said.
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,
Volkswagen, a German company, recently joined the handful of large corporations worldwide
that are customers of D-Wave Systems, a Canadian maker of computers that apply the mind-bending principles of quantum physics.
The moves are part of an expanding effort by European carmakers
and suppliers to build the computing capacity — so-called big data — they will need as vehicles digitize and become driverless.