Samsung Foundry completes tape-out of Tesla's next-gen AI chip

Samsung Foundry has completed tape-out of Tesla's next-generation AI chip designed for autonomous driving and robotics. The milestone signals Tesla's continued reliance on external foundry capacity for custom silicon whilst scaling inference compute.

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