On: Tesla’s Dojo Microarchitecture

[slt2021]

they want to get federal funding for chip manufacturing on US soil?

That would be typical of Elon Musk to get some federal funding $$$$$

but Elon can make it work on par if not better than nVidia, just because Tesla can hardcode and overoptimize for one single task (FSD AI), while nVidia will always be limited in keeping their chips generic enough for all purpose NN training/inference and even gaming + backwards compatibility for all historical stuff.

Tesla can work with blank slate and can reap performance benefits over there

[RC_ITR → slt2021]

Neither Tesla nor Nvidia do (or want to) manufacture chips.

That's an extremely complicated thing that requires armies of PhDs (chem, EE, physics, etc.) and billions of dollars.

You can think of what this is as 'maps' that manufacturers instantiate as chips.

IDK what tools Tesla is actually using, but for context, the work that Tesla employees would do looks like this: https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/tools/custom-ic-analog-rf...

[kjksf → slt2021]

Tesla started this effort 6 years ago (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ganesh-venkataramanan-99272a3/).

So no, your conspiracy theory does not align with reality.