January 6 news, foreign media electronek reported that Tesla began to produce Model 3 and Model Y models equipped with AMD Ryzen processors, and old owners may also have paid upgrade plans, which may be released in the second half of this year.
The AMD Ryzen chip of the Model Y replacement is likely to use AMG's custom car processor like model S Plaid, the model is AMD Ryzen V1000 series, of which the highest specification V1807B TDP reaches 45W (quad-core 3.4GHz), and its performance is very significantly improved compared to the previous Intel Atom A3950.
Tesla uses a pure visual assisted driving obstacle avoidance solution, which requires a lot of real-time AI analysis and calculation, which requires a powerful performance of the car. The previous Intel Atom A3950 has not been able to meet Tesla's pursuit of L3 and L4 level vision solutions, and powerful car machine chips are imperative.
AMD CEO Su Zifeng said that the Model S/X central control car machine uses amD embedded APU + RDNA2 independent graphics card chip combination, even comparable to Sony PS5, even compared to Qualcomm's latest car processor 8155 also has a greater advantage, basically the future Model 3, Model Y can smoothly run "Cyberpunk 2077", "The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" and "Fallout: Shelter" has a large advantage.
Previously, the Model Y Performance version of the car machine produced in China has used this chip combination, and the Model 3 Performance will definitely use this chip, as for the basic rear-wheel drive board, it is difficult to say. The price of the rear-wheel drive version is relatively low, generally used to take the volume to better sell assisted driving software, it may be used later in this chip.
Now the smart car, has gradually evolved into a computer with four wheels, the chip has become the top priority, perhaps one day the chip on the market can not meet the needs of Tesla, Tesla may turn to self-developed chips. As an American company, it is relatively easy to recruit people from Qualcomm and Apple, and Tesla's market value has reached trillions of dollars, and there is enough money to form a chip team.