Samsung and Neuralink are two companies you might not expect to work together, but did you know that Samsung and Elon Musk's companies have actually worked together a lot before? Samsung Foundries has worked with Tesla to produce processing chips for its Full Self Driving self-driving system before, and now it's Neuralink's turn.
According to a report by South Korean media outlet Hankyung, Samsung Foundries has begun designing Neuralink's fourth-generation Brain Compute Interface (BCI) processing chips since the end of last year, and has now begun the manufacturing and production process of these processing chips recently.
The Neuralink processing chips will be manufactured using the 4nm FinFET process and will begin shipping to Neuralink early next year after all the initial production and production review phases have been completed. Meanwhile, mass production of the BSI chips is expected to take place by the end of next year after all these chips have passed the testing phase by Neuralink.
This report is also quite interesting because the production of the previous three generations of Neuralink chips has all been produced by TSMC. The expectation is that with this fourth-generation processing chip series, if Samsung can produce chips with the appropriate quality and rate, Neuralink can obtain sufficient supply of chips from both companies for a variety of future uses.
