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Elon Musk reveals roadmap with nine-month cadence for new AI processor releases, beating Nvidia and AMD's yearly cadence — Musk plans to have the highest-volume chips in the world

  • [email protected] (Anton Shilov) , Anton Shilov--Tom's Hardware UK
  • published date: 2026-01-18 16:18:33 UTC

Elon Musk wants Tesla to iterate new AI accelerators faster than AMD and Nvidia. This can be done, but with caveats.

Nvidia tends to release its AI GPUs at an annual cadence, which keeps the company ahead of all rivals. AMD has invested a lot to keep up, so it also launches new AI accelerators on a yearly rhythm. A… [+3832 chars]