Tesla has began utilizing a brand new AMD chip in new Mannequin Y automobiles in China after additionally transferring to AMD within the new Mannequin S.
Automakers have been struggling to safe chip provide and pc energy for his or her automobiles over the past yr.
Shortages have led to manufacturing halts throughout the trade.
Tesla has been no exception, but it surely has honest significantly better than most because it managed to nonetheless develop its manufacturing considerably over the identical interval.
To assist alleviate the necessity for chips, Tesla pivoted to microcontrollers for some subsystems.
However the automaker nonetheless wants some good outdated processing energy and graphic playing cards.
Tesla has all the time been extraordinarily targeted on bettering computing energy in its automobiles, which individuals usually name “pc on wheels” nowadays.
A lot of the main target has been on its chips for self-driving, which the automaker ended up designing itself, however Tesla additionally has been updating its chips for its leisure system (MCU).
At first, Tesla was partnering with Nvidia, then moved to Intel, and it now seems just like the automaker is perhaps transferring to AMD, a big American semiconductor firm.
As we reported this week, Tesla began deliveries of the Mannequin Y Efficiency produced at Gigafactory Shanghai.
Now that it’s within the palms of shoppers, we be taught that Tesla is now utilizing an AMD Ryzen chip for the Mannequin Y Efficiency’s MCU:
It’s not clear if solely the brand new Mannequin Y Efficiency is utilizing the AMD chip, however all variants of a Tesla car typically use the identical onboard pc.
Curiously, Tesla additionally used AMD to energy the brand new leisure pc within the new refreshed Mannequin S.
In that case, the automaker wanted a whole lot of energy because it claims the identical computing energy as the most recent era gaming consoles.
It seems like AMD is turning into a extra vital companion for Tesla and it will likely be attention-grabbing to see if extra automobiles change to AMD chips.
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