According to Sawyer Merritt on X, Samsung is preparing a second semiconductor fab at its Taylor, Texas cluster, following its new $25 billion facility slated to help produce Tesla’s future AI6 (HW6) chip. As reported by Merritt, the expansion signals larger foundry capacity for advanced automotive AI silicon, positioning Samsung Foundry to win long-term contracts for Tesla’s next-gen autonomous driving hardware and related inference workloads. According to Merritt’s post, the Taylor buildout could accelerate U.S.-based advanced packaging and leading-edge process readiness for automotive-grade SoCs, reducing supply chain risk for AI compute in vehicles. For AI businesses, this indicates near-term opportunities in automotive AI accelerators, onshore chip supply partnerships, and ecosystem services around design enablement, verification, and advanced packaging tied to Tesla’s HW6 program.