TECH NEWS – The Tesla CEO recently reportedly told the chairman of TSMC that he does not want to focus on cars, but on humanoid robots that are still in development.

Musk must be a Transformers fan, because the name of this robot will be Optimus. It is also the name of the leader of the Autobots (the good robots). But that aside, Dan Nystedt wrote on Twitter that CC Wei, president of TSMC, the world’s most important semiconductor manufacturer, met with Elon Musk last week about the production of Dojo AI chips. These will use TSMC’s 5-nanometer technology and will be manufactured using InFO-SoW (Integrated Fan-Out System-on-Wafer), an advanced packaging technology.

Musk said that Tesla’s future is not in cars, but in Optimus, and was concerned that there would not be enough chips. In response, Wei said not to worry because as long as Tesla can pay for the chips, TSMC will provide them for the company. The Taiwanese publication also wrote that the brain (literally!) of the Optimus will be the Dojo chip, just as fully self-driving cars are implemented in current Tesla cars. However, this turned out to be a translation error, as another tweet makes clear.

Jeff Lutz wrote that for Tesla, Dojo is their own data center-side training chip that will not be in the cars or Optimus. They will be powered by the AI4 chip or computer that TSMC makes and Tesla designs. Production of AI5 will ramp up in time next year to make it into Cybercab and the first few thousand Optimus (to start). Samsung won the rights to AI5, but Tesla may source it from two manufacturers, so Samsung and TSMC could produce it. Huge volumes are reportedly planned by Tesla.

Bank of America analyst John Murphy says it plans to have about 1,000 Optimus in factories by the end of next year…

Source: WCCFTech