Intel partners with Rolls-Royce to develop autonomous cargo ships

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https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/15/intel-partners-with-rolls-royce-to-develop-autonomous-cargo-ships/

By CHRIS O'BRIEN
Venture Beat
OCTOBER 15, 2018

Rolls-Royce today announced that it would use Intel chips as it develops a 
global system for autonomous ships that carry cargo on the high seas.

The partnership follows the announcement last year of an ambitious 
timetable to have fully autonomous shipping fleets deployed by 2025. While 
based in the U.K., Rolls-Royce is developing the shipping technology in 
R&D centers located in Finland and Norway.

"Delivering these systems is all about processing, moving, and storing 
huge volumes of data, and that is where Intel comes in," said Lisa 
Spelman, VP and general manager of the Intel Xeon processors and 
datacenter marketing, in a statement. "Rolls-Royce is a key driver of 
innovation in the shipping industry, and together we are creating the 
foundation for safe shipping operations around the world."

With large cargo ships hauling almost 90 percent of the world's goods, 
Rolls-Royce believes that making them autonomous, or in some cases 
remote-controlled, can dramatically improve safety, as well as making 
fleets more efficient. The effort is one of a growing number of efforts to 
disrupt and reinvent global logistics. But one of the biggest challenges 
is designing systems that can record and manage the massive amount of data 
such a system would generate from a ship.

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