Model 3's ship with older chip in China, US?

[Vic_F]

Tesla downgraded the chips in some Model 3 vehicles because of coronavirus — Business Insider

Hopefully Tesla has/is not doing this in the United States. Curious comment about cars not ordered with FSD not getting current chips.

 

[Jedi2155]

I wouldn't be surprised if they did start doing that in the USA. It would be more incentive for people to pony up for FSD up front.

 

[Tam]

...Hopefully Tesla has/is not doing this in the United States. Curious comment about cars not ordered with FSD not getting current chips.

Why not?

The order would clearly list what they got. If they don't order FSD, the order would not list "Full Self Driving".

What counts is what the receipt says, not consumers' assumption.

 

[Vic_F]

The point is shipping new car with older hardware

 

[JulienW]

The FSD/HW 3 chip is fabricated in the US and must be imported to China. That is the "China" problem, exacerbated by COVID-19 and won't effect Fremont.

 

[Tam]

The point is shipping new car with older hardware

It should be more economical for Tesla to unify the assembly line with all HW3 but as there's a shortage of HW3 it's reasonable that consumers should not get HW3 if they didn't pay for FSD.

Consumers get what they pay for.

 

[Knightshade]

The FSD/HW 3 chip is fabricated in the US and must be imported to China. That is the "China" problem, exacerbated by COVID-19 and won't effect Fremont.

Source? Because last I heard it was made overseas by Samsung?

Tesla's New HW3 Self-Driving Computer — It's A Beast (CleanTechnica Deep Dive) | CleanTechnica

The processor is being fabricated by Samsung

 

[PoitNarf]

I’m sure Tesla doesn’t want to do this but it’s what’s gotta be done with the current supply chain issues. Would you rather get your car now with the HW2.5 computer or wait several weeks more to take delivery because there wasn’t enough HW3 computers for all the cars coming off the assembly line? I know which option I would pick.

 

[JulienW]

Source? Because last I heard it was made overseas by Samsung?

Tesla's New HW3 Self-Driving Computer — It's A Beast (CleanTechnica Deep Dive) | CleanTechnica

"...It is manufactured on Samsung's 14-nanometer process at their Austin, Texas fab, packing roughly six billion transistors on a 260 millimeter squared silicon die. The FSD chip meets AEC-Q100 automotive quality standards...."


https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/tesla_(car_company)/fsd_chip

 

[Tam]

The point is shipping new car with older hardware

A good example is some Model S 60kWh have a 60kWh battery while others have a 75kWh battery.

It's good that those who didn't pay for 75kWh battery and got it but the rest just can't argue that they should get the 75kWh battery too when they didn't pay for it!

 

[hmmwv]

The FSD/HW 3 chip is fabricated in the US and must be imported to China. That is the "China" problem, exacerbated by COVID-19 and won't effect Fremont.

The chips are made in a FAB in the US but then has to be shipped to China to produce the actual FSD computer, and then import back into the US to be put into cars. So if it's a shortage problem in China we can't rule out problem here down the road, having said that most exporting factories in China are back online now so I hope Tesla has enough inventory to dampen the impact and consumers won't notice a thing.
From the pictures we can see the HW2.5 computer was made in August and HW3.0 one was made in November.

 

[Jedi2155]

Uggh, I hate the swapping of DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY

 

[JulienW]

Uggh, I hate the swapping of DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY

It is actually more correct. We just do it out of order in the US.