Last week, Elon Musk announced that Tesla would make its next-generation AI5 processor in the U.S. and would double-source this system-on-chip from both TSMC and Samsung Foundry. This is down to Tesla aiming to have plenty of AI5 silicon available, since it will be used in a wide range of applications, including cars, robots, and, somewhat unusually, data centers. Musk also said that data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-takes-a-scalpel-to-its-2nm-wafer-price-tag-bringing-it-down-to-usd20-000-korean-chipmaker-now-undercuts-rival-tsmc-by-33-percent” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/samsung-takes-a-scalpel-to-its-2nm-wafer-price-tag-bringing-it-down-to-usd20-000-korean-chipmaker-now-undercuts-rival-tsmc-by-33-percent”>Samsung Foundry’s fab in Taylor, Texas, is more advanced than TSMC’s data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-gives-an-ultra-rare-video-look-inside-its-fabs-silver-highway-and-fab-tools-revealed-in-flyby-video-of-companys-us-arizona-fab-21″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/tsmc-gives-an-ultra-rare-video-look-inside-its-fabs-silver-highway-and-fab-tools-revealed-in-flyby-video-of-companys-us-arizona-fab-21″>Fab 21 phase 1 in Arizona, which is a strange…
