Waymo and Intel are officially teaming up to build self-driving cars

Waymo and Intel just announced a blockbuster new partnership in the self-driving space — but it's a collaboration that's actually been going on for years. 

The two companies, which are among the leaders in the race to develop driverless car technology, officially announced their partnership in a blog post penned by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich. There were no financial terms revealed, and other details about the partnership were not disclosed, but we did gain some new insights about Waymo's driverless vehicle platform. 

We now know that Waymo was using Intel's tech well before the partnership was made official earlier today. A separate post from Waymo revealed that it has used Intel technology in its self-driving cars since 2009, long before it spun out from Google as a standalone company last year.  Read more...