Infineon, NXP, and Renesas were the leading automotive semiconductor manufacturers worldwide in 2020. Infineon’s market share was estimated at around 13.2 percent. The total market in 2020 was sized at around 35 billion U.S. dollars. In February, a winter storm in Texas caused blackouts at NXP Semiconductors, which is a major provider of automotive and …
A new report from AutoForecast Solutions says the number of vehicles lost — not produced — will hit 7.1 million. The firm estimated with the recent 107K in losses — 71,300 in North America — the global industry has lost 5.96 million vehicles by the end of August. In May, According to AutoForecast Solutions and …
Elon Musk said FSD Beta 10 will release midnight Friday September 10, 2021. The FSD Beta 10.1 should be on September 24, 2021. Beta 10.1 should be good enough for the public opt in request button in the US. Other regions will follow a few months later. FSD Beta 10 rolls out midnight Friday next …
Hyperchange channel Galileo Russell reports the production yield of Tesla 4680 cells has reportedly risen to about 70-80%, up from just about 20% last year. Tesla’s pilot battery line at Kato Road is starting to close in on the acceptable yields of factories like Giga Nevada. Tesla is ramping battery output from its pilot line …
This is a comparison of Tesla with the four top electric car companies in China. The top EV companies that are compared are BYD, Nio, XPeng and Li Auto. SAIC Motor’s makes a lot of cars and EVs in joint ventures with GM and VW. SAIC sells a lot of the $5000 Wuling Mini EV. …
Joe Tegtmeyer posted a photo of the completely finished Model Y produced at Giga Texas. This shows things are on track for the start of production from Giga Texas in October. 27 August 2021 Giga Texas … one of the first pre-production Model Ys inside the General Assembly building! pic.twitter.com/DRs8Tt21pX — Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer) August …
Elon Musk says that Tesla will release FSD 10.0 on Friday September 3. His best guess for the public beta FSD button will be in about 4 weeks. Beta 10 will be next-level — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2021 We should be there with Beta 10, which goes out a week from Friday (no …
Tesla revealed its Exapod Dojo supercomputer made from 10 cabinets of servers. Each rack has 6 tiles with 9 Petaflops in each tile. Each cabinet is 100 petaflops. The fastest AI supercomputer is Nvidia Selene with 2.8 Exaflops of performance. In 2020, Nvidia Selene was 1 Exaflop and cost about $56 million. The Nvidia Selene …
The Amazon AWS Global Infrastructure is built for performance. AWS Regions offer low latency, low packet loss, and high overall network quality. This is achieved with a fully redundant 100 GbE fiber network backbone, often providing many terabits of capacity between Regions. Amazon has or will soon have about 100 data centers and each data …
Lex Fridman has a very successful podcast but he has been an AI researcher for 6+ years. Lex was very impressed with the technical details of Autopilot and FSD revealed at Tesla AI day. Lex says “All of it is just brilliant”. He thinks Tesla has all the pieces needed to solve full self-driving. Lex …
James Douma was interviewed by Dave Lee about Tesla AI Day. James is an AI expert and notes how Tesla has done significant re-architecting and is charting new paths to solve self-driving. James was amazed that one of the Tesla AI modules is using 18,000 amps. James and Dave think that if Tesla is able …