By bno - Seoul Office As global demand for high-performance chips accelerates, especially in the fields of artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, chipmakers are battling for dominance in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics signed a $16.5 billion, eight-year contract to supply semiconductors to a global company, which Elon Musk said was Tesla.,

Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate. Samsung currently makes AI4. TSMC will make AI5, which just finished design, initially in Taiwan and then Arizona.