en.Wedoany.com Reported - Samsung Foundry is about to produce Tesla's AI5 chip, which has successfully taped out. James Kim, chief engineer at Samsung Foundry, revealed in a LinkedIn post that the AI5 chip, developed in collaboration with Tesla, is manufactured using Samsung's latest 2nm-class process technology. It is planned for mass production at the Taylor factory and will soon be integrated into Tesla's new products.

Elon Musk showcased the first sample of Tesla's AI5 in mid-April, stating that the processor will be produced at both TSMC and Samsung Foundry. The AI5 using TSMC's process technology taped out several months earlier than the Samsung Foundry version.

The AI5 processor module displayed by Musk integrates an accelerator chip, roughly half the size of a reticle, and is equipped with 12 SK Hynix memory packages, which appear to be standard GDDR6 or GDDR7 devices. The module uses an organic substrate, and the memory component labels are similar to those of conventional discrete DRAM chips.

Tesla has not yet disclosed the bit width of the AI5 memory subsystem, but the presence of 12 memory packages suggests a wide external memory interface. Assuming the module uses 12 GDDR6 or GDDR7 integrated circuits, the processor would have a 384-bit memory bus. Depending on the memory technology and transfer rate used, memory bandwidth could range from 768 GB/s to 1.536 TB/s.

Tesla has not revealed detailed specifications such as the peak computing performance of the AI5, but Musk has claimed that under certain workloads, the AI5's performance could be up to 40 times that of its predecessor. Musk expects the AI5 to become one of the highest-volume chips ever produced, hence the plan to use two foundries for manufacturing. The AI5 will be used in Tesla vehicles, Tesla robots, and Tesla data centers.