Tesla AI6
Tesla's next in-house AI chip, to be made entirely by Samsung under a $16.5 billion foundry contract running to 2033 at Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab. Sources and verification dates.
Every published figure
Source per value- Owner The company that specified the chip and runs it in its own cloud, data centers or products.
- Tesla 1
- Role What the owner says the chip is for: training, inference, both, or a general-purpose server CPU.
- Training and inference 3
- Foundry The fab that manufactures the die (TSMC, Samsung, SMIC, Intel).
- Samsung 1
- Node Process node as the owner or foundry states it, for example 'TSMC N3' or '7 nm'.
- Samsung SF2T (2 nm-class) 2
- Status Announced: public roadmap without verified deployment. Sampling: first silicon or limited internal use. Preview: customers can request early access, without a GA claim. Deployed: stated production use or general availability. Discontinued: program stopped.
- Announced 1
- Announced Year the owner first announced the chip publicly.
- 2,025 1
- Deployment scale The largest deployment the owner or a named report states: chip counts, clusters, gigawatts or regions.
- Samsung contract worth 22.8 trillion won (about $16.5 billion) through 2033, built at Taylor, Texas. 1
- How to get it How an outside buyer can use the chip: a named cloud instance or service, a product, or 'Internal only'.
- Tesla vehicles, Optimus robots and data centers 3
Not verified in the sources reviewed: design partner, partner basis, memory, memory capacity, memory bandwidth, bf16, fp16, mxfp8, mxfp4, mx8, mx4, fp8, int8, fp4, precision note, power, largest pod.
Sources
- Data Center Dynamics: Samsung signs $16.5bn deal with Tesla to manufacture AI6 chips at Taylor fab accessed 2026-11-11
- Seoul Economic Daily: Samsung's SF2T process targets Tesla AI6 accessed 2026-11-11
- TechCrunch: Tesla shuts down Dojo accessed 2026-11-11