Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI
Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI
Emails circulated inside Nvidia show that Elon Musk was telling the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of GPUs to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.
KEY POINTS
- Emails circulated inside Nvidia and obtained by CNBC show that Elon Musk told the chipmaker to prioritize shipments of processors to X and xAI ahead of Tesla.
- Musk has said he can grow Tesla into a major player in artificial intelligence and that the company is spending heavily on Nvidia’s AI processors.
- By ordering Nvidia to let X jump the line ahead of Tesla, Musk delayed the automaker’s receipt of over $500 million in processors by months.
Maybe they can kick him off the board for this 🤣
Good luck with that. The board are all sycophants.
Everyone who hasn't jumped ship is either a sycophant or a
brown-nosed moronfanboy at this point.
With the dropoff in EV purchases, maybe this was on purpose to protect Tesla's profit numbers in the short term
There is no dropoff of EV purchases, just Teslas, and just barely. One contributor to that is that there is a wait-list. A bigger contributor is that being associated with Elon isn't as cool as it once was.
Tesla Q1 sales were down 13% YoY. Most major competition posted high double digit growth. Tesla is in trouble.
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Audi is not exactly a budget brand though. Instead you could point to something like Chevy releasing the Equinox and originally intending for it to replace the Bolt but having the starting price at $43k with a cheaper one in the future. They were literally going to permanently end production of their most popular vehicle because they wanted the higher margin items that few could afford.
Sure, but Chevy was essentially forced by public opinion to continue making the Bolt EV, which is an affordable and well-liked little car.