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By your own estimates, Tesla is effectively shipping 2-10 data centers worth of AI hardware a year, with a budget of something like $500M ($5k electronics in 10

By your own estimates, Tesla is effectively shipping 2-10 data centers worth of AI hardware a year, with a budget of something like $500M ($5k electronics in 100k cars). Granted, AI is probably more of a $10-50M budget, but... Does it really not make sense to talk to chip houses if you're moving 100k units of special hardware at $50M/year for the foreseeable future, and looking to scale up?

imtringued 9y ago
$50M is a very reasonable budget for an AI chip. If they can take advantage of AMD engineers instead of hiring their own they can probably even get away with a smaller budget. http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics-101/ http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics...