Neither Tesla nor Nvidia do (or want to) manufacture chips. That's an extremely complicated thing that requires armies of PhDs (chem, EE, physics, etc.) and bi

Neither Tesla nor Nvidia do (or want to) manufacture chips. That's an extremely complicated thing that requires armies of PhDs (chem, EE, physics, etc.) and billions of dollars. You can think of what this is as 'maps' that manufacturers instantiate as chips. IDK what tools Tesla is actually using, but for context, the work that Tesla employees would do looks like this: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/custom-ic-analog-rf-design/layout-design/virtuoso-layout-suite.html https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/custom-ic-analog-rf...