Tesla has decided to shut down the supercomputer team Dojo, thus ending the company’s efforts to develop chips internally for autonomous driving technology.
Peter Bannon, the director of Dojo until now, will leave the company, and according to “Bloomberg,” Elon Musk has ordered the closure of the project for a supercomputer designed and built by Tesla for video processing and recognition through computer vision, used to enhance the advanced driver assistance system Full Self-Driving.
This decision comes after the Dojo team recently lost 20 employees to the newly formed DensityAI. Current Dojo employees are being reassigned to other data center and computing projects within Tesla.
According to the same source, Tesla now plans to increase its reliance on external technology partners, including Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices for computing, and Samsung Electronics for chip manufacturing.
It is worth noting that Tesla recently announced it had signed a $16.5 billion agreement to acquire chips from Samsung Electronics.
