According to Korea Economic Daily, South Korea’s Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced on Monday that it has signed a camera supply contract with a well-known American electric car manufacturer. Although Samsung Electro-Mechanics did not disclose the specific name of the customer, it is speculated that the US company may be Tesla, and the size and amount of the contract have not yet been determined.
According to the report, Samsung Electro-Mechanics is expected to provide cameras for several Tesla models, including the Cybertruck, Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y. The cameras are ultra-high-definition, with more than 5 million pixels. This is extremely valuable for Tesla as the company works on vision-based self-driving technology.
It is noticed that Samsung seems to be working hard to ensure that it becomes one of Tesla’s most important suppliers. It was reported last year that Samsung Electro-Mechanics would replace LG Innotek as Tesla’s main camera module supplier. At the time, LG provided 70 percent of Tesla’s camera modules, while Samsung supplied the remaining 30 percent.
Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ camera supply contract is the company’s second major order win this year, following reports in July that Samsung had been awarded a contract to supply chips for Tesla’s next-generation Hardware 5.0 computer. However, HW5 may still be a few years away. At present, Tesla is still slowly rolling out Hardware 4.0, and even the vehicle Musk used to demonstrate FSD Beta V12 is only equipped with Hardware 3.
