The Tesla deal gives a much-needed boost to Samsung’s loss-making contract chipmaking business.Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesSamsung Electronics, controlled by South Korean billionaire Jay Y. Lee, has signed a 22.8 trillion won ($16.5 billion) multiyear deal with Tesla to manufacture AI chips for the U.S. electric vehicles-to-AI giant.Elon Musk, Tesla’s billionaire CEO, said on Monday on his X social media platform that Tesla is working with Samsung to produce the next-generation AI6 inference chip, wh ...