Elon Musk claims Tesla’s new AI5 chip is 40x more performant than previous-gen AI5 — Next-gen custom silicon for vehicle AI to now be built by Samsung & TSMC

Tesla’s next-gen AI5 chips is going to be manufactured by both TSMC and, now, Samsung in America. Musk claims that it’s 40x faster than the outgoing AI4 silicon, mostly because of a radical design approach that ditches legacy hardware blocks to focus on what’s needed right now.