Tesla signs $16.5B deal with Samsung to make AI chips

Tesla has signed a $ 16.5 billion contract to get its next generation chips from Samsung.

“Samsung’s giant new Texas Fab Tesla will be dedicated to the next generation AI 6 chip making,” Elon Kasturi Post On the X at Sunday evening. “It is hard to overcome its strategic importance.”

Tesler AI 6 (alias Hardware 6) chip is a company’s bet on an all-in-one chip design that can strengthen its driver’s assistance as a complete self-drive (oversight) on Tesla Optimus Humanoid robots.

Kasturi mentions that Tesla is working to create AI 5 chips with TSMC, which has just finished the design. A. 15, a generation that is primarily built for FSD. Initially, TSMC’s Taiwan factory and then will be built at its Arizona facility. Samsung already produces a 14 chip according to the musk.

This agreement is an enthusiasm for Samsung, which fought to attract the main clients and fought to remove its chip making project from the ground. Kasturi said in another post that Tesla could spend more than $ 16.5 billion on Samsung chips.

“The actual output is probably more likely to be more than a few times,” he said.

In the next post, Kasturi said that Samsung Tesla agreed to allow the manufacture of production skills to assist in the maximum.

“This is an important thing, because I will walk the line in person to accelerate the speed of progress and