Tesla is in talks with SK hynix regarding purchasing enterprise-grade SSDs worth around $725 million for its AI supercomputers based on the wafer-scale Dojo processors, reports the Korea Economic Daily. If the negotiations come to fruition, this could be one of the largest single SSD purchase agreements ever. Yet, the report is unofficial, so take it with a grain of salt.
Details about the deal are scarce to put it mildly, but the Korea Economic Daily reports mentions SK hynix's Solidigm subsidiary that makes enterprise-grade storage devices. For now, Solidigm is the world's only maker of eSSDs that can store 61.44TB of data with its D5-P5336 drive designed specifically for storing large amounts of data used for AI training. The report does not directly state that the talks are about procurement of these eSSDs, though it is clear that Tesla needs vast amounts of storage and significant storage density for its AI training workloads.
