Tesla to Get Chips From Samsung’s Texas Facility in $16.5 Billion Deal

Share prices of both companies rose on July 28.

A Tesla model Y at a booth during the AI+ Expo of the Special Competitive Studies Project in Washington on June 2, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Tesla’s next-gen chips will be manufactured at Samsung’s upcoming semiconductor facility in Texas, the automotive company’s CEO, Elon Musk, said in a July 28 post on X.

“Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip,“ Musk said. ”The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate.