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But as always, thank you for the feedback. We may be in a bit of a lull when it comes to the Robotaxi expansion right now, but basically everywhere else you look at Tesla right now, there are signs of significant expansion underway. Not only is Tesla actually moving forward with its own tariff app, but we now have Samsung who's more of a partner with Tesla announcing a second factory in Texas.
This one also in Taylor set for mass production next year. It decided on this second factory as major US tech companies line up to place their orders amid constraint capacity at TSMC. The project has entered the early stages of regulatory preparation, and Council document show the extension allows the city to continue supporting regulatory review for the planned second factory. Those documents show the motion passed unanimously. The planned FAB 2 facility is said to be about 2.7 million square feet the same size as FAB 1, which we know is currently under construction.
And construction of FAB 2 will begin once the building permits are issued. But the news that was largely being overlooked beyond FAB 2, more factories could follow. Samsung bought 1268 acres of land in Taylor to build at semi cluster, which is large enough to accommodate up to 10 FABs. The campus will focus on producing chips for high performance compute and automotive applications using the company's 2 nanometer process. Now we have reporting that Samsung has already secured 121 customers for the campus.
Potential large orders could come from major tech firms like Google, and Bight Dance. The first plant is preparing to start mass production next year as part of Samsung's deal with Tesla. As a refresher, FAB 1 is preparing to start mass production next year as part of Samsung's deal with Tesla. They signed at 16.5 billion dollar contract to which Elon said that was just the beginning and it would likely far exceed that number in time.
But it'll start with making AI5 and AI6 chips. But for now it remains unclear whether the extra orders from Tesla have expanded the scope of the deal which previously covered only AI6 chips. Don't forget at FAB 1 for a few months Samsung was struggling to find any customers until Tesla came in and basically saved the day. As far as we know, Tesla scooped up nearly all of the expected available capacity at FAB 1.
And now just a few months later with that vote of confidence from Tesla, they apparently have 121 different customers lined up for FAB 2. And as you'll see shortly there's very good reason for why there is a surge for two nanometer demand right now. So to be clear, FAB 2 is not primarily dedicated to Tesla like FAB 1.
However, given Tesla's existing partnership with Samsung and what Tesla did for Samsung to get them that first major order and major customer in Taylor, there's a very strong chance that at least a portion of the FAB 2 will end up in Tesla's hands. So why the rush for two nanometer demand? Well, this is an article from semi-analysis and Dylan Patel who's widely regarded as one of the best semi-conductor industry analysts that we have.
The bottlenecks in this industry continue to shift every few months, but right now it is Silicon supply. There's simply not enough advanced logic and memory fabrication. And remember, Tesla's TerraFab will be unique because they're combining all three. The logic the memory and the packaging all under one roof. TSMC calls its three nanometer chips N3 and up until today N3 demand has been driven primarily by consumer electronics, smartphones, laptops, computers, etc.
But this year we have all of the main AI accelerator families also transitioning to N3. So this sudden convergence of N3 adoption coupled with continued growth of AI compute demand has resulted in a huge demand shock for N3 wafer capacity. And these capacity constraints may therefore push customers to explore greater foundry diversification, which is exactly what Tesla's doing going to both TSMC and Samsung for AI56 and beyond.
And look, if we want to continually have an excellent handle on Tesla as a company and as investors and fans, we have to understand the Silicon world now. And of course, in the months and years ahead, I'll do everything in my power to continually educate everybody including myself on the depths of this industry. But this year, AI infrastructure customers are getting clear priority over consumer electronics. AI accelerator designs usually have bigger die sizes and more complex packaging requirements, which translate to higher average selling prices.
And why can't TSMC just add more N3 wafer starts, like memory suppliers, TSMC is constrained by available clean room space. Additional usable fab area must first be built before equipment can be installed and new capacity brought online. And for the next two years, TSMC will not be able to add enough capacity to fully meet demand. So clearly, a bottleneck exists and we cannot forget about Elon's bet that at Tesla's new Cara Fab expected to be two nanometers, Elon will be able to eat cheeseburgers and smoke cigars in the clean room.
为什么台积电不能像存储器供应商那样增加更多的 N3 晶圆产能呢?这是因为台积电受限于现有的无尘室空间。在安装设备和增加新产能之前,必须先建造出额外的洁净厂房。在接下来的两年里,台积电将无法增加足够的产能来完全满足需求。所以,很明显存在瓶颈。此外,我们还不能忘记埃隆在特斯拉新 Cara Fab 工厂2纳米技术上的赌注,他说将可以在无尘室里吃汉堡和抽雪茄。
So obviously, Elon believes that the industry is doing something sub optimally with the clean rooms. And all we've really heard about Elon's idea is that it has to do with fully sealed and isolated wafers or these advanced micro environments. And then for today, one term that will come up often going forward is co-os, which just stands for chip on wafer on substrate. This is TSMC's naming for its packaging step of the process.
And zooming out industry wide, 2.5D is the overall type of packaging that the industry is largely using right now. And it gets that naming because it's somewhere between 2D and 3D. And so the packaging process is largely where you take the logic die, which is the system on chip, and then you actually pair it or connect it to the HBM or the high bandwidth memory. And the HBM is typically made up of a stack of somewhere between 8 to 12 dies.
And rather than being a fully 3D process where you would stack the SOC and the HBM on top of each other, they are side by side. And then effectively connected by these microscopic copper wires, where both are connected to a silicon interposer and then ultimately to a substrate, which acts as the mechanical structure. So the memory and the logic and the interposer are all very brittle, so the substrate is effectively what holds it together, gives it some structure.
And again, it has copper and solder balls for actually bringing power up through the motherboard and into the interposer and transferring that power evenly to the HBM and SOC. All that to say, one of the things I'm most excited for for Tesla's Terrafab is that they'll be able to develop their own processes for the logic, for the memory, and for that final packaging step. Already, these foundries have their own versions of how they do things and what they specialize in, but Tesla will be able to specialize for exactly what it needs.
And again, the plan is to have that specialization at all three steps. And this year, packaging engineers and foundries have converged on the same conclusion. 2.5D integration is now the primary tech responsible for power delivery, signal integrity, at extreme bandwidths, mechanical stability across large areas, and in some cases, even active functionality. AKA, it's where everything comes together.
And this 2.5D packaging is being pushed to its limits, so the question is what will the next phase look like, as these companies are now being forced to decide what problems are worth solving in silicon and which are not. And at inflection points like that for a company that's so heavily focused on vertical integration, it'll be a great thing for Tesla to get to that point.
Now, we have to understand Tesla's tariff app might be close to a zero until closer to 2030. But we know the time is going to pass anyway, so for Tesla to set itself up through the 2030s, in position A, where it's less reliant on the rest of the industry, makes such a big risk like this actually makes sense. I was able to find a simpler graphic comparing the 2.5D process, where we are now, to a potential 3D future.
Again, the 3D is where the dies would be stacked on top of each other directly onto the substrate. Whereas today, the stack of high-bandwidth memory dies and the logic dies are still next to each other. So again, if you hear me say co-os in the future, that's TSMC's process for the packaging step. Chip, on wafer, on substrate.
And one more oversimplified diagram to show how these connections in the interposer and through the substrate actually work. And this connection between the high-bandwidth memory and the logic happens at the packaging phase. I will say it might feel a bit overwhelming at first trying to get into the silicon space, but I have found it to be so incredibly fascinating.
Not just because so much of our world is now directly reliant on this technology, but when you understand that these chips that are mostly made of sand and all of these EUV machines, the most complicated machines that humans are making right now, that are massive to do this microscopic etching on this sand to then power most of the technology that we know and love is really just mind-blowing stuff. And when you consider geopolitics and consequences of the war, like a potential shortage in helium that there's currently no replacement for in silicon production. You just have this fascinating web of factors and all of the biggest AI CEOs and tech CEOs now speedrunning to build out their own data centers both on earth and in space.
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We've actually known about this news since July of last year when LG made it public that they had a supply contract for over $4 billion with some company but at the time they did not name the customer. However, the expectation speculation was it was Tesla. And depending on your perspective this one might be even sweeter because originally this was part of Altium cells meaning it was a deal between LG and GM. But spring of last year GM sold its entire stake back to LG and then LG pivoted the facility from NMC chemistry to LFP and to prismatic cells.
So Tesla scooped up all of that supply that GM did not have the demand for. And this is a triple threat. Number one avoids those Chinese tariffs on LFP cells. It will then qualify all of this LFP supply for some domestic incentives through the IRA. And third it will strengthen not just Tesla's supply chain but the US national supply chain for battery supply as well. A very important distinction to make here this site is fully owned and operated by LG meaning all of the 45X credits the production tax credits will be going to LG.
However the standard industry practice is for these battery producers getting those credits to lower the cost of the cells or the price of the cells for the ultimate consumer which in this case is Tesla. Meaning in directly Tesla is likely to benefit greatly from these production tax credits they just won't be receiving them directly. However don't forget Tesla will still be able to most likely get some direct credits being the $10 per kilowatt hour for taking those cells and assembling them into modules and packs in Houston. Again specifically for MegaPak 3. So the 35 dollars per kilowatt hour will go direct to LG and then they will lower the price of the cells for Tesla. Then Tesla will buy those cells as the consumer. Assemble those cells into modules and packs in Houston and then get that $10 per kilowatt hour credit directly.
Just keep in mind that wow MegaPak 3 production is expected to begin in Houston at smaller scales later this year. This new LFP cell supply from Michigan is not expected to be available for Tesla until sometime around August 2027. So there will be roughly a one year period where Tesla has to get LFP supply from either Nevada or overseas. But again long term this is a big win for Tesla because largely Tesla's getting its LFP cells now from CATO.
And right now the current tariff rate on cells from China is in the neighborhood of 70%. And Tesla's own LFP factory around 7 gigawatt hours of eventual capacity is starting production on a very small scale this year. But as we know that will certainly take some time to ramp up and be ready. So not only will Tesla eventually avoid those high tariffs but they'll also benefit from the direct manufacturing incentives available in the states.
So the energy business never gets the love and attention it deserves. But starting sometime in 2028 this should be very margin accretive for Tesla. We had the Zacker sharing a short video of a parking lot full of model wise in Henderson in the suburbs of Las Vegas. He posed the question, could it be Tesla getting ready for a Robotaxi launch in Las Vegas? And primarily the speculation is driven that these model wise have all of the camera cleaners which so far the customer fleet has not gotten.
And here are some photos to confirm the camera washer. It should be noted that parking lot is indeed a self-serve test drive lot for Tesla. But as we know Las Vegas is one of the cities that Tesla plans to launch in in the first half of this year. So nothing official but I would say those camera washers and the red color that Tesla's been using for unsupervised vehicles in Austin is an encouraging sign. Another city you'll find on Tesla's list for the first half is Dallas.
And Sawyer got a photo from a follower again of a red model Y with the rear camera washer doing some testing in Dallas, Texas. And both these vehicles and the ones in the lot in Las Vegas all had Texas plates. Plus one of the model wise in Dallas was spotted simulating a pickup and a drop off. So we're roughly halfway through the first half of this year and we've had very little robot taxi motion so in the second half of the first half things should really pick up.
Sawyer 又收到一位粉丝发来的照片,照片上是一辆红色的 Model Y,后置摄像头正在达拉斯进行测试。这辆车和那些停在拉斯维加斯的车辆都挂着德州的车牌。而且,在达拉斯拍到的一辆 Model Y 还在模拟接送任务。我们现在大约处于今年上半年的中期,而到目前为止,自动驾驶出租车的进展还很少。所以在上半年的剩余时间里,这方面的进展应该会加速。
And Jesse shared a video saying another unsupervised robot taxi was added to the fleet now tessels up to three in Austin. As I've said for a while I do not think we should be placing so much emphasis on the numbers from the robot taxi tracker. But there is a chance we are in the midst of unsupervised slowly scaling in Austin right now. We started with around eight unsupervised vehicles then Tesla went down to one in a limited geofence for a while but now we may be reversing that trend going positive once again.
Too early to say if that limited geofence has been expanded for unsupervised rides but certainly something we will keep an eye on. And on the cyber cab Eric also said we built the seat height to be in line with standard wheelchair seat height. Accessibility is very important in autonomous vehicles freedom of transportation for everyone is critical.
Eric said this combined with the door kinematics a wheelchair can park parallel to the seat with plenty of room unlike traditional doors. And just a fun fact when Tesla was positioning the cyber cab at the pop up they were using a phone to control it. We also just had Sean Duffy say are you ready to ditch your steering wheel? That referring to the first ever national AV safety forum that the Department of Transportation held.
Eric 说,这种设计结合了车门运动学,轮椅可以平行停靠在座椅旁边,空间充足,与传统车门不同。而且,一个有趣的事实是,特斯拉在展示他们的Cyber Cab时,用手机来控制车子。我们刚刚还听到Sean Duffy问,你准备好抛弃方向盘了吗?这句话是关于交通部举行的首次全国自动驾驶安全论坛。
Then the lead cyber cab engineer Eric shared that post saying thank you and your team for meeting with us this week at the AV safety forum. Innovative American made AVs like the cyber cab will vastly improve roadway safety and we look forward to working with you on launching them at scale this year. And we just got this from the federal register the FMVSS modernization for number 102 to accommodate ADS equipped vehicles.
Nitzah is proposing to amend FMVSS 102 and in short the proposed modification would accept vehicles equipped with automated driving systems that do not have manually operated driving controls from the requirement for a transmission shift position meaning a vehicle like the cyber cab that will not have wheels or pedals would no longer need to display park neutral drive. So it's not groundbreaking and there will be a comment period that last until April 15th this year but we will take what we can get and remember all of these FMVSS modifications might be moot because Tesla already said even as they stand now the cyber cab meets all of them. So unless Nitzah challenges Tesla's interpretation of all of that we are no longer at the mercy of the FMVSS at least when it comes to cyber cab.
Yesterday in video at GTC announced its own compute platforms for orbital data centers. Jensen said space computing the final frontier has arrived as we deploy satellite constellations and explore deeper into space intelligence must live wherever data is generated. The first time Elon said anything about data centers in space there was immense backlash across all different industries saying that Elon was crazy and that it was not ready. And while we may have some time between now and when we have this at any sort of scale very clearly for Jensen to announce this publicly having Nvidia's backing we can be sure that the rest of the industry is going to try to follow suit and be a part of this next frontier and it really is so typical to have Jensen come after the fact and tout orbital data centers and everybody's clapping and cheering and high-fiving.
But months ago when Elon first brought up this idea and really started making the push for it it was largely met with backlash and mocking. Anyway in video said that its Avira Rubin Space 1 module will be used on space missions led by multiple companies. The chips are specifically engineered for size weight and power constrained environments. Importantly Jensen said Nvidia is working with partners on a new computer for orbital data centers but there are still engineering hurdles to overcome. In space there's no convection there's just radiation and so we have to figure out how to cool these systems out in space but we've got lots of great engineers working on it.
几个月前,当埃隆首次提出这个想法并开始大力推动时,它大多遭到了反对和嘲讽。然而,在视频中提到,Avira Rubin Space 1 模块将用于由多家公司领导的太空任务。这些芯片专为尺寸、重量和电力受限的环境而设计。更重要的是,黄仁勋说,英伟达正在与合作伙伴一起开发用于轨道数据中心的新型计算机,但仍需克服工程方面的困难。在太空中没有对流,只有辐射,所以我们必须想办法在太空中给这些系统降温,不过我们有很多优秀的工程师在努力研究这个问题。
I think that's an important point because you'll see some people saying space is so cold so cooling really won't be a challenge. But according to Jensen clearly for now it still is a challenge. So yes there will be hurdles and obstacles between now and then however directionally this all but confirms where everyone is going to be running. And as I've always said any competition is actually a great thing for Tesla and when these engineering bottlenecks get figured out because they will get figured out removing all of those major bottlenecks on earth. The environmental impacts all of the permitting all of the land availability concerns, the liquid cooling requirements and the water consumption, the power availability, electricity supply, the interconnection cues, all of that largely gets wiped out when those engineering challenges for orbital data centers are solved.
And Elon just said the AI race will come down to scaling power and chip output. So this is exactly why Elon is strategically positioning his companies as we see him doing right now. And on the AI race a chuto said Google DeepMind is destined to win the AI race to which Elon said for a few years then SpaceX will far exceed everyone combined. My question here was Elon thinking that this SpaceX entity would include Tesla at that time. Because if it didn't we know Tesla is an AI company and it would be very hard for SpaceX to exceed Tesla if they were in the group of everyone else combined. Now that's obviously reaching but could Elon be embedding something in that statement.
You guys know I'm usually not one to entertain things like this but I'll be honest I was the one that kept going back to that thought in this case. And given SpaceX's dual-class share structure that could make things easier for Elon's ownership a SpaceX acquisition of Tesla in the next few years continues to make more and more sense. Not that it wouldn't come without any trade-offs but the synergies and the overlap and the partnership continues to grow by the week. Max from Tesla said the team is all in on V4 cabinets. The brand new V4 cabinet line at Giganyork is automotive grade and spooling up for charging ubiquity around the world.
He shared a pretty cool black and white photo but the big news was that Giganyork has built their last V3 Supercharger cabinet marking the end to 15,000 plus V3 cabinets over seven years. Now the V4 cabinet line is ramping up which means all new Supercharger locations going forward will be true V4 sites. And Tesla is now planning Australia's biggest EV charging site with more than 25 bays. Site plans say it'll be located in the town of McKay in Queensland. The reporting is saying they're likely to be V4 Supercharger stalls capable of up to 250 kilowatts. Just remember the Cybertruck is not currently available in Australia so those higher supercharging speeds aren't really applicable.
This image was shared by a European Tesla customer and the UI said upcoming country border supervised FSD will become unavailable. And that was while using enhanced autopilot from Italy to Austria. To be clear this one could be nothing these notifications have been around before but I'm sharing as a reminder that Elon said he's expecting supervised FSD approval from the RDW by March 20th which is just three days.
Nvidia and Uber announced a deeper partnership aiming for driverless level 4 rubber taxis by 2028. In the press release they do say the service would start in LA in San Francisco in the first half of 2027 and scale to 28 cities globally by 2028. But if you actually read the release you'll find the driverless operations are not expected until 2028. For now until we get more information on the program I've said what I want to say. Number one getting 98% of the way to autonomous driving right now is relatively speaking pretty easy.
So companies making announcements and having demos that look pretty good is not that difficult but what people fail to understand is how excruciatingly difficult the final 2% is and further how long that actually takes. And I've already done a few episodes on how Nvidia is just providing tools legacy auto still needs to take these tools and know what to do. So these companies can't buy these tools and then magically overnight have a working neural network that is capable of FSD.
So personally I would be very surprised if any of these legacy auto companies are able to remove the driver even by 2028. Because for now that's the plan but I am expecting delays. And as we've seen across the legacy auto industry and all of these companies pulling back from EVs taking tens of billions of dollars of write downs they are struggling profitability is struggling they need to do or say something to their investors to avoid mass Exodus.
So they really have no choice but to say hey guys look here's our solution we're going to figure this out too with the help of Nvidia. And the unfortunate reality is somebody that's still invested in a GM or a Ford no offense at all if that is you everybody has different objectives but I'm saying the average investor that's not closely plugged into the autonomous driving space isn't going to know the difference they'll see the demos and the partnerships and how good things look already but 2028 is going to roll around and those people will be wondering what in the world is going on.
When Tesla is scaling its rubber taxi network while most of legacy auto is still nowhere near unsupervised autonomy. Elon said the new Roadster unveil is probably in late April and he also said the new Roadster unveil hopefully next month. It will be a banger next level. So late April is the new expectation pushed back from April 1st but that new date is not set in stone.
And Travis Kalanik the founder of Uber said when I've run into people who are in the know I inquire they tell me nothing but their eyebrows raise and their eyes widen in a way that can only mean something of sorcery and magic is coming. The SEC is now preparing a proposal that would allow companies to report financial earnings semi-annually instead of quarterly. This proposal could be released as soon as April and the proposal is expected to make quarterly reports optional rather than eliminating them entirely.
So as I mentioned on X this would be a great thing for the companies but not so great for consumers, investors and fans. And selfishly for us to only get a peek behind the curtain twice a year for Tesla that would be brutal. Tesla stock closed the day at $399.27 up 0.94% while the NDX was up 0.51%. The volume was 22% below the average still very depressed from where it was even late last year.
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