The Korea Economic Daily reported that Samsung Electronics will produce the next-generation autonomous driving chip HW 4.0 for Tesla. Several industry sources revealed that Samsung will defeat TSMC and win orders. Tesla and Samsung’s foundry departments have been studying chip designs and samples since the beginning of this year.
Recently, Tesla decided to outsource the autonomous driving chip HW 4.0 to Samsung. This is almost a foregone conclusion, one of them The source said. It is reported that Samsung plans to mass-produce Tesla HW 4.0 chips using 7nm technology at its Hwaseong plant in South Korea starting in the fourth quarter of this year at the earliest .
Samsung Electronics said: Although the 7nm process is lagging behind the 5nm process, Samsung decided to use the 7nm process in order to ensure the production and stability when installed in autonomous vehicles. Another source said: In order to ensure the safety of Tesla’s new generation of electric vehicles, Tesla and Samsung have reached an agreement on the 7nm process.
HW 4.0 is the successor to the HW 3.0 chip currently used in Tesla’s vehicles, and the HW 3.0 chip is manufactured by Samsung.
