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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens West window past, South China Daniel Wu's clue delivery! CTOnews.com July 18 news, according to South Korean media "Korea economy" quoted semiconductor industry news on the 18th, following Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong and Tesla CEO Musk met in May this year, the cooperative relationship between the two sides has been further strengthened. According to the latest news, Tesla has "decided" to entrust Samsung Electronics with the production of chips for HW 5.0.

HW 5.0is the next generation of self-driving hardware developed by Tesla and is expected to be used in Tesla's high-end models (or L5-class self-driving cars) in about two years. In the early stages of HW 5. 0 development last year, Tesla chose TSMC as the only contract manufacturing partner.

However, this situation has changed in the past two or three months. Samsung has raised the quality rate of its cutting-edge processes such as 4nm to 70%, similar to that of TSMC.

Several people familiar with Samsung and TSMC said that "Tesla has decided to accept Lee Jae-yong's proposal" and is "considering selecting Samsung and TSMC as multiple suppliers, or 100 per cent outsourcing to Samsung". Because Lee Jae-yong "provides Tesla with customized technology and relatively attractive prices".

CTOnews.com previously reported that in May this year, Lee Jae-yong met with Musk at Samsung's North American Semiconductor Research Center, and the two sides discussed future cooperation plans in cutting-edge industries. In April, Samsung won a cutting-edge chip order from global self-driving chipmaker Mobileye, a subsidiary of Intel that specializes in self-driving technology, to produce a series of advanced driving assistance system chips "EyeQ" for Mobileye.

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