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Tesla's AI5 with 2nm-class node tapes out at Samsung Foundry, production starts soon, months after TSMC tape out
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Tesla's AI5 chip is about to enter mass production at Samsung Foundry using the company's 2nm-class process technology, a principal engineer at Samsung Foundry disclosed in a LinkedIn post, as noticed by Sawyer Merritt.
Key facts
- Depending on the memory technology and transfer rates employed, this would translate into memory bandwidth ranging from 768 GB/s all the way to 1.536 TB/s
- The Tesla-Samsung Al5 chip has reached tape-out," James Kim, a principal engineer at Samsung Foundry, wrote in the LinkedIn post
- Tesla’s AI5 processor module that Elon Musk demonstrated in April integrates a relatively compact accelerator die, roughly half a reticle in size, based on Musk's earlier remarks, alongside 12 SK
- Tesla's AI5 chip is about to enter mass production at Samsung Foundry using the company's 2nm-class process technology, a principal engineer at Samsung Foundry disclosed in a LinkedIn post
Summary
TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investments examined. China bets on DUV, as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking. "The Tesla-Samsung Al5 chip has reached tape-out," James Kim, a principal engineer at Samsung Foundry, wrote in the LinkedIn post. Elon Musk demonstrated the first sample of Tesla's AI5 in mid-April and revealed that the processor will be concurrently made both at TSMC and Samsung Foundry.