The divorce between Intel and Tesla is now official and at all corporate levels, since although there have been rumors that the world’s largest electric car maker is going to make the leap to AMD in China for reasons monetary policy, we now know that the strategy will not stop there, since we are already verifying that in the United States the new Model 3 and model Y with APU Ryzen. Complete divorce with Intel and marriage with AMD.
It was planned and we do not understand how a company like Intel gave way to an AMD which is taking over the entire sector of processors and customizable APUs. We’ve seen it with consoles, now we’re seeing it in vehicles and NVIDIA is the only one that seems to be putting up some resistance. How was Tesla going to keep up with its new models with Atom processors?
First Apple, now Tesla: Intel divorces
The first Model 3 and Y vehicles with MCU3 (Infotainment Computer with AMD Ryzen) are now produced and delivered in North America! pic.twitter.com/BHbpyKr78D
– Teslascope (@teslascope) December 28, 2021
Although the company run by Pat Gelsinger is starting to come out of the hole she found herself in, the reality is that she barely has both arms to come out of the well. He’s way ahead of desktops again, but still way behind servers and HEDT, he’s way ahead of technology again, but he’s lost track of custom chips.
The auto industry woke up late, very late and now the rush is coming. Tesla is a leader in automotive and systems innovation, but as a good company that is constantly evolving, it needs more and more power, so after discussing and seeing the options and especially the prices of Intel, it decided to make the jump in China to AMD and its Ryzen APUs. . , with such overwhelming results that the blow will be global.
To give us an idea of the data that comes to us from the Asian country: in Youkou (Chinese Youkou) the application in the same car model for the Atom and the Ryzen the first managed to load it in 17.12 seconds
Bilibili only if demora 7.04 seconds by charging in the car with APU Ryzen for the 24.16 the Atom … damning data that prompted Tesla to file for divorce from Intel.
“Obsolete” technology that continues to be used
Let’s not think that today’s cars offer the best in performance, but neither do they need it. In short, a car will simply be a PC with wheels that will manage an infinity of sensors, values and cameras, where it will also need a good iGPU apart from a large CPU or memory. It is a set which, in the case of AMD, is presented as a system Ryzen YE180FC3T4MFG customized for Tesla using a processor Quad core Zen + and logically to 12 nm who gets nothing less than 3.8 GHz and integrates 4 MB of L3.
As for your iGPU, it is marked as 215-130000026 and it is similar in performance and functionality to a PRO W6600 which is impressive because it means we have an RDNA 2 card with a chip Navi 23 at 7 nm which works almost at the same level as a RX 6600 XT, at least in its server version.
We assume that the performance will be reduced in frequency, as the W6600 consumes 100 watts to achieve nothing less than 10.4 TFLOPS.
