Tesla → Samsung: $16.5B chips & hardware
Tesla gives Samsung $16.5 billion AI6 chip deal. Samsung's largest foundry contract: AI6 chips made at the Taylor (Texas) plant. Musk: $16.5 billion is the minimum.
This deal is 89% of everything Tesla pays and 7% of everything Samsung receives in this database.
- Date
- Jul 28, 2025
- Paid by
Tesla- Received by
🇰🇷 Samsung- Type
- Chips & hardware
- Amount
- $16.5B
- Status
- announced
- Note
- foundry contract through 31/12/2033
Sources
All deals between Tesla and Samsung
- Jul 28, 2025 Tesla → Samsung · Tesla gives Samsung $16.5 billion AI6 chip deal $16.5B
More Tesla / Samsung deals
- Sep 8, 2026 Samsung leads €3 billion into Mistral $3.5B
- Aug 6, 2026 Tesla co-invests in Terafab n/a
- Jul 25, 2026 Broadcom-Samsung: $200 billion agreement $200B
- May 30, 2026 State fund lends Samsung ₩2.5tn $1.8B
- Mar 24, 2026 Microsoft may prepay Samsung $10bn+ for memory $10B
- Mar 19, 2026 Samsung sole HBM4 supplier for OpenAI chip n/a
- Mar 18, 2026 Samsung to be AMD's main HBM4 supplier n/a
- Mar 16, 2026 Samsung Foundry makes Nvidia's Groq 3 LPU n/a
- Jan 28, 2026 Tesla invests $2 billion in xAI $2B
- Oct 31, 2025 Samsung: 50,000 Nvidia GPUs for AI megafactory n/a
- Oct 1, 2025 Samsung joins Stargate (memory) n/a
- May 14, 2025 Samsung buys FläktGroup for data-center cooling $1.7B