After taking a stake in Intel, the Trump administration seems to have taken upon itself the responsibility of filling Intel's order book, be it the enthusiastic courting of Apple's Tim Cook with anecdotes of the "tens of billions of dollars" that the US government has recorded in gains over the past few months as Intel shares surged, or pressuring Tesla to now abandon TSMC in favor of Intel's Arizona fabs. Tesla is reportedly facing concerted pressure from the Trump administration to move the fabrication of its AI6.5 chips from TSMC to Intel Back in April, while discussing the taping out […]

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Elon Musk lays out the plans for Tesla's future AI ecosystem, utilizing both Samsung & TSMC 2nm tech for AI6 & AI6.5 chips. Tesla's 2nm Duo Confirmed: AI6 Goes Samsung With LPDDR6 & AI6.5 Goes TSMC With Improved Performance A few days ago, Tesla announced the successful tape out of its AI5 chip, made at Samsung. The chip is just one of the many custom silicon designs that Elon Musk and his enterprises are making to fulfill their in-house AI demand. Musk also talked about the next-generation chips, such as AI6 and the Dojo3 supercomputer project. The company is aiming […]

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Elon Musk confirms that SpaceX & Tesla will always remain a major customer of TSMC, but the Taiwanese chipmaker alone couldn't fulfill its demand, which is why they started the Terafab project with Intel. Terafab Is Essential To Elon's Ambitious "In-House" Chipmaking Goals, But Says That SpaceX & Tesla Will Remain A Customer of TSMC A few days ago, Lip-Bu Tan (CEO of Intel) and Elon Musk announced their partnership on the ground-breaking Terafab project, which will be responsible for producing custom and in-house chips for Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, and other ventures. The project is expected to begin its first […]

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