# Tesla AI5 chip design completed and taped out; Samsung foundry confirms July 2026 production tape-out on 2nm process

Canonical page: https://technooptimist.io/stories/tesla-ai5-chip-design-completed-and-taped-out-samsung-foundry-confirms-b9a89f82
Date: 15 Apr 2026
About: [Tesla](https://technooptimist.io/companies/tesla.md) · [AI5 / AI6 chips and Dojo 3](https://technooptimist.io/computing/ai5-chip.md)
Original source: https://electrek.co/2026/04/15/tesla-ai5-chip-taped-out-musk-ai6-dojo3/

Elon Musk congratulated Tesla's chip team on taping out AI5, meaning the design was locked and sent for manufacturing, and said AI6 and Dojo 3 were also in work. Tape-out is not the finish line: automotive AI chips usually need 12 to 18 months more before volume production, and Tesla had already moved AI5 volume to mid-2027.

## Key facts

- Musk: "Congrats to the @Tesla_AI chip design team on taping out AI5! AI6, Dojo3 & other exciting chips in work."
- Tesla first said in June 2024 that AI5 would be in cars in the second half of 2025.
- Musk says AI5 is up to 10x more powerful than AI4; Cybercab launches on AI4.
- Tesla needs several hundred thousand finished AI5 boards before switching Cybercab production to it.
- AI6 is tied to Samsung's 2 nm line and has slipped about six months on yields.

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