Tesla signs 16.5 billion dollars with Samsung to make artificial intelligence chips

Tesla signed a $ 16.5 billion deal to get the next generation chips from Samsung.

“Samsung Giant New Texas FAB will be dedicated to making the AI6 chip of the next generation of Tesla,” Elus Musk to publish At late on Sunday evening. “It is difficult to overestimate the strategic importance of this.”

Chip from Tesla’s AI6 (AKA hardware 6) is the company’s bet on the design of the whole in one that can expand from operating its driver’s aid system known as full self -driving (under supervision) of Tesla Humanoid robots, leading to high -performance AI training in data centers.

Musk noted that Tesla works with TSMC to make AI5 chips, which has just finished the design. A15, a generation designed mainly for FSD. Initially, it will be made at the Taiwan factory in TSMC and then at the Arizona facility. Samsung is already making the A14 chip, according to Musk.

The deal is a boost to Samsung, which has struggled to obtain a project to make its chips from the ground after it failed to attract and retain the main customers. Musk said in another post that Tesla could spend more than $ 16.5 billion on Samsung chips.

“The actual product is likely to be several times higher,” he said.

In a later post, Musk said that Samsung agreed to allow Sala to help increase the efficiency of manufacturing.

Musk wrote: “This is a critical point, as I will walk on the line personally to accelerate the pace of progress. The introduction in a comfortable location is not far from my house.”