Tesla Dojo D1

Tesla's in-house training chip for the Dojo supercomputer: 50 billion transistors on a 645 mm² die, made by TSMC at 7 nm, in production from July 2023. Tesla shut Dojo down in August 2025 to focus on AI6. Sources and verification dates.

NodeTSMC 7 nm
Owner Tesla Status Discontinued Automaker

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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 1
Foundry The fab that manufactures the die (TSMC, Samsung, SMIC, Intel).
TSMC 1
Node Process node as the owner or foundry states it, for example 'TSMC N3' or '7 nm'.
TSMC 7 nm 1
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.
Discontinued 2
Announced Year the owner first announced the chip publicly.
2,021 1
Deployment scale The largest deployment the owner or a named report states: chip counts, clusters, gigawatts or regions.
Tesla targeted 100 exaflops of total compute by October 2024, roughly 276,000 D1 chips; it never confirmed reaching it. 1
How to get it How an outside buyer can use the chip: a named cloud instance or service, a product, or 'Internal only'.
Internal only 1

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

  1. TechCrunch: Tesla Dojo, Elon Musk's big plan to build an AI supercomputer, explained accessed 2026-11-11
  2. TechCrunch: Tesla shuts down Dojo accessed 2026-11-11