Samsung in Talks With Tesla to Make Next-Gen Self-Driving Chips Based on 7nm Process.

If Samsung wins the order, it is expected to make the chip on its 7-nanometre production process

Samsung is in talks with Tesla to make Tesla's next-generation self-driving chips based on Samsung's 7-nanometre chip production process, a South Korean newspaper reported on Thursday.

Since the beginning of this year, Tesla and Samsung have discussed chip design multiple times and exchanged chip prototypes for Tesla's upcoming Hardware 4 self-driving computer, the Korea Economic Daily reported, citing sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Samsung declined to comment. Tesla did not have an immediate response.