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CTOnews.com November 28 news, Tesla has established a joint venture company with Swiss automotive semiconductor company Annex in Jinan, China-Anas Semiconductor.

According to the data, Anas Semiconductor (Jinan) Co., Ltd. was established on October 19,2022, with registered address of 1112-16, Licheng Financial Building, No.3 Huaxin Road, Licheng District, Jinan City, legal representative of Enoch Thomas, registered capital of USD 150 million, business scope including: semiconductor discrete device manufacturing; Automobile parts and accessories manufacturing; Intelligent vehicle equipment manufacturing; Intelligent vehicle equipment sales; IC chip and product manufacturing; IC chip design and service; IC chip and product sales; IC manufacturing; IC design; IC sales; semiconductor discrete device sales; electronic component manufacturing; power electronic component sales, etc.

The joint venture has a registered capital of US$150 million, with Annex owning 55 percent, followed by Jinan Zurich Anas Equity Investment Fund Partnership with 40 percent and Tesla with the remaining 5 percent. Jinan Zurich Anas Equity Fund acquired Annex for US$5 billion as early as June 2022.

Tesla's stake is only 5%, relatively low, but this is the first time it has laid out chip design and manufacturing in the mainland of China.

Jinan Zurich Anas Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) was just established on September 26 this year, registered next door to Anas Semiconductor (Room 1112-18, Licheng Financial Building, No.3 Huaxin Road, Licheng District, Jinan City, Shandong Province). Its managing partner is Zurich Foundation Management GmbH.

Interestingly, there are three shareholders in Jinan Zurich Anas Equity Investment Fund Partnership (limited partnership), Shandong Lijin Industrial Investment Fund Co., Ltd. holds 49.5%, Qingdao Zurich Ruixin Equity Investment Fund Partnership (limited partnership) holds 49.5%, Zurich Fund Management Co., Ltd. holds 1%. It is understood that Shandong Lijin Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd. was established in 2022. It is a member of Jinan Licheng Financial Holding Group and a wholly-owned enterprise of Licheng District Finance Bureau of Jinan City.

At the same time, there are reports that Tesla has placed a large-scale chip order with TSMC. The size of the order will reportedly make Tesla one of TSMC's top seven customers next year. The chips will be fabricated on TSMC's 4/5 nanometer nodes.

CTOnews.com has learned that Tesla released a 7-nanometer-based D1 chip last year to power its Dojo supercomputer, which trains its autonomous driving neural network by feeding in visual footage taken by millions of electric vehicles already on the road. The electric car company revealed a lot of details about the Dojo supercomputer at its recent Chips 34 event.

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