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Mark Tyson

Elon Musk prioritizing humanoid robot advances, says TSMC CEO — TSMC will supply the chips if the price is right

Optimus humanoid robot.

Elon Musk has fingers in many high-tech pies, but the world’s richest man is now prioritizing advances in humanoid robotics, states TSMC’s CC Wei. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TSMC shared this information nugget with delegates at the Taiwan National Science and Technology Conference on Monday, reports Electronics Weekly. Moreover, he told his audience that TSMC would supply all the chips Musk wanted if the price was right.

In August, we last discussed Musk’s Optimus robots when the billionaire tech mogul showed off the newly renamed Cortex AI supercluster. At the time, this impressive supercomputer used 50,000 Nvidia H100s. Even more impressively, it had grown to leverage over 100,000 H100s by the beginning of this month, with plans supposedly to go for the million…

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