Tesla Model Y In China Now Comes With AMD Ryzen Chip

Tesla, following the move to powering its Model S using AMD chips, is now also transitioning the china-assembled Model Y onto the same. The news comes in as deliveries for the Model Y Performance units assembled at the Gigafactory Shanghai began. As Electrek points out, Tesla is using the Ryzen chip to power the vehicles' MCU. Now if its just the Performance variant that is packing the AMD chip remains unclear for now, but it is unlikely that Tesla would be using different chips for different variants. The move to AMD appears to be a result of the massive silicon…