Samsung may make next-gen self-driving chips for Tesla in future: report

Samsung is already producing chips in Tesla's existing Hardware 3 computers.  (image credit: Reuters)

Samsung is already producing chips in Tesla’s existing Hardware 3 computers. (image credit: Reuters)

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said at the company’s AI Day event in August that Tesla would introduce new hardware for its self-driving computer for its Cybertruck electric pick-up truck in “about a year or so.”

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Samsung is reportedly in talks with Tesla To base Tesla’s next generation of self-driving chips samsungof 7-nanometer chip production process, a South Korean newspaper reported on Thursday. Since earlier this year, Tesla and Samsung have discussed chip design and exchanged chip prototypes for Tesla’s upcoming Hardware 4 self-driving computer several times, Korea Economic Daily reported, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Said citing.

Samsung declined to comment. Tesla did not have an immediate reaction. The report says that if Samsung wins the order, it is expected to manufacture the chip on its 7-nanometer production process. Samsung is already producing chips in Tesla’s existing Hardware 3 computers.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said at the company’s AI Day event in August that Tesla would introduce new hardware for its self-driving computer for its Cybertruck electric pick-up truck in “about a year or so.”

In the chip contract manufacturing industry, Samsung is second only to TSMC, which had a market share of 52.9 percent, compared to 17.3 percent at the end of June, according to analysis provider TrendForce.

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