Until now it was thought that after the rupture of relations with the Israeli company MobilEye manufacturer of electric vehicles Tesla Motors will work closely with NVIDIA , which already supplies Californian partner not only the Tegra mobile processors, and server solutions for the processing of information received from the electric vehicle.
However, t Tesla Motors promises to use in the "autopilot" proprietary microprocessors . As explained by the South Korean sources, Samsung will not only produce processors for Tesla Motors at its own production facilities, but also will be engaged in their development. The mobile manufacturing segment such cooperation model is commonly referred to ODM. The customer only forms the terms of reference and contract manufacturer assumes the development and launch of the product with the desired characteristics in mass production. However, experts emphasize that the development of Samsung processor for Tesla Motors may take a lot of time.
It is noteworthy that Samsung is going to advance in the automotive segment and its own electronic components. For example, the first results of cooperation with Audi in this area will be announced at the January exhibition CES 2017. The fact may be limited as the components of the multimedia system (in this area Volkswagen has long worked with NVIDIA), and move on to the control systems of the vehicle. Recently, Samsung announced the purchase of a major supplier of multimedia systems for cars - the Harman International, Industries, .