Ouster partnered with NVIDIA Hyperion platform
Ouster Brings REV8 Native Color Lidar to the NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion Platform for Autonomous Vehicle
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May 12, 2026
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u/OkFun5527 — 16 hours ago
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Lidar maker Ouster unveiled an important new product that might even get Elon Musk to reconsider his position on the technology.
Monday, Ouster unveiled its REV8 family of lidars that see in color. The company has fused camera-like technology with lidar, which is essentially laser-based radar, at the microchip level.
That's a big deal. It eliminates the sensor-fusion problem that is part of the reason Tesla CEO Elon Musk doesn't like lidars. Tesla, famously, uses only optical cameras for its self-driving technology. Alphabet's Waymo uses a suite of sensors, including lidars and cameras.
Source: barons/Ouster IR
u/OkFun5527 — 9 days ago
Ouster just dropped a press release for their new Rev8 OS sensor family.
The Facts:
Native Color: They partnered with Fujifilm to integrate 48-bit color directly into the lidar hardware, with a 116 dB dynamic range
New L4 Silicon: A new chip that reportedly processes 42.9 GMACs and over 20 trillion photons per second
OS1 Max: The new flagship 256-channel sensor claims a 500m max range (and 200m for tricky, low 10% reflectivity objects)
Intended Adopters and Customers:
Google (Waymo?), Volvo, Liebherr, Epiroc, Skydio...
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u/OkFun5527 — 10 days ago
FEI President and CEO, Tom McClelland, commented, "Frequency has historically not provided guidance because our business can be non-linear on a quarterly or even annual basis. But as we end Fiscal 2026 today, we feel increasingly confident in our ability to project our growth on a multi-year basis because of the continuing expansion of our backlog and order book, as well as the significantly larger end-markets that we are selling into, all of which are based on technology that leverages our long-standing market leadership in space and defense applications.
"To that end, as our Fiscal 2027 kicks off tomorrow, we are today establishing a minimum target of $150 million in annual revenue by Fiscal 2029, three years from today. The path to that number will likely not be perfectly linear, but represents a significant acceleration in our revenue growth, and a compound annual growth rate north of 30%. The pace and cadence of the development of next-generation markets in quantum sensing, proliferated satellites, space exploration, and alternative position, navigation and timing, as well as the continued growth in our core space and defense businesses, may allow the Company to exceed these estimates
u/OkFun5527 — 12 days ago