Tesla · vehicle computer
FSD Chip (Hardware 3)
Tesla's first in-house self-driving chip with 12 Arm A72 cores and two neural-network arrays; HW3 carries two for redundancy. Tesla says the early Optimus robots used the same SoC.
- Compute
- 72 TOPSper chip (two neural arrays of 36 TOPS); two chips per computer
- Power
- up to about 100 W per computer
- Process
- 14 nmTransistor node
- Made by
- SamsungFoundry
- First year
- 2019
- Price
- —Not published
Robots that use it
2 robot models whose maker or reputable press names this chip.
2022United StatesOptimusAI Day 2022 prototypeTesla · humanoidRetired
2023United StatesOptimusGen 1Tesla · humanoidRetired
How we know: 2 sources, one per robot
- Optimus (AI Day 2022 prototype)Tesla said the torso holds the same self-driving SoC used in its cars (the FSD chip family).electrek.co
- Optimus (Gen 1)A single Tesla SoC derived from the car FSD computer sits in the torso.en.wikipedia.org
The Tesla family
Every Tesla chip in the atlas, oldest first.
About Tesla
United States · chip designer
Designs its own self-driving chips (FSD chip in HW3, AI4 in HW4, AI5 next) and the Dojo D1 training chip; Samsung and TSMC make them. The same compute family runs the Optimus humanoid.
Closest rivals
Other makers' vehicle computers of similar power from within three years of it. Chips with no published figures are left out.
| Measure | FSD Chip (Hardware 3)Tesla | Huashan A1000Black Sesame Technologies | Journey 5Horizon Robotics | DRIVE AGX XavierNVIDIA | MDC 610Huawei |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2018 | 2021 |
| Compute | 72 TOPS per chip (two neural arrays of 36 TOPS); two chips per computer | 58 TOPS | 128 TOPS | 30 TOPS INT8 | 200+ TOPS |
| Power | up to about 100 W per computer | — | — | 30 W | — |
| Process | 14 nm | 16 nm | 16 nm | 12 nm | — |
| Foundry | Samsung | TSMC | TSMC | TSMC | — |
| Robots | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sources
Specs come from the maker and reference pages. The source for each robot is under "How we know" above.
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