April 7, 2026, roughly two and a half weeks after the Terafab project was announced on March 21. ... No. Intel is a manufacturing and process-technology partner. No equity stake has been announced. ... Musk named Intel's 14A process for the full-scale facility. The original March announcement had targeted a 2nm process.
Terafab will create at least 3,000 permanent jobs in Grimes County, Texas — but as of August 10, 2026, no Terafab-specific positions have been posted. The site was only confirmed on August 6, and construction hiring comes before fab hiring.
Le gaz naturel n’a pourtant rien d’anodin. À Memphis, les turbines de xAI ont fonctionné pendant des mois sans les permis nécessaires, avant de faire l’objet d’une plainte pour violation du Clean Air Act, la loi fédérale sur la qualité de l’air.
Now, as of this week apparently TeraFab will construct a Free Electron Laser to achieve its goal of producing one Terawatt of computing power per year. That’s 5% of todays global energy production going into chips that come from a single factory. LCLS produces hard X-rays; the but chip production uses EUV light which is longer wavelength.
Tesla and SpaceX confirm Terafab, a $16.8 billion chip megafactory in Grimes County, Texas, to supply Optimus robots, Cybercabs and orbital data centers.
A blogger has posted that, according to TeraFab's announcement, Elon Musk appears to be pursuing the FEL (Free Electron Laser) route, aiming to disrupt the traditional EUV monopoly.
Data Centers Elon Musk's SpaceX ... factory in Texas · Data Centers Elon Musk's first-gen orbital data center craft spans wider than a Boeing 747 and runs an interchangeable chip payload...
Space Exploration Technologies (NasdaqGS:SPCX) and Tesla announced a joint US$16.8b Terafab semiconductor and AI compute megafactory investment, aimed at addressing global AI chip and compute capacity shortages.
SpaceX and Tesla plan to initially invest $16.8 billion in TeraFab, located in Texas. The complex could reach 9.3 million m² of manufacturing space and create at least 3,000 jobs.
Tesla broke ground in April on a research fab at the North Campus of Giga Texas in Austin, which the companies describe as Terafab’s precursor. Texas sweetened the deal with a $30 million Texas Enterprise Fund grant and a designation under the state’s Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation program. That is real money, but it is a rounding error against the private capital being deployed. Compare that to the CHIPS Act, which shoveled tens of billions of taxpayer dollars at legacy chipmakers and
Its first public earnings call revealed $7.8 billion in quarterly revenue, a $100 billion annual run-rate target by December, and Elon Musk's most audacious move yet: a $16.8 billion semiconductor complex called the Terafab that aims to break ...
The project is positioned as a ... AI data centers. According to SpaceX, Terafab will serve as a vertically integrated semiconductor fab housing manufacturing, packaging, and testing for advanced logic and memory devices.
China is also exploring similar "lithography fab" solutions, where EUV beams are generated by a light source factory and transmitted to dozens of adjacent lithography exposure stations for simultaneous operation. The reason why Terafab dares to bet on FEL essentially stems from its huge production capacity demand.
Elon Musk's Tesla and SpaceX have committed $16.8 billion to break ground on Terafab, a colossal chip factory in Grimes County, Texas, with total costs potentially reaching $119 billion.
The March announcement talked about $25 billion. A May regulatory filing raised that to $55 billion for phase one, with a potential $119 billion across the full multi-phase buildout.
SpaceX says the facility will be “an advanced semiconductor fab that will bridge the divide between current global chip supply and the compute demand of the future.” A vertically integrated factory putting manufacturing, packaging, and testing of advanced logic and memory under one roof, the company claims “Terafab will be epic in both its mission and in its sheer size.”
SpaceX | xAI and Tesla announced a joint $16.8 billion investment in Terafab , a semiconductor and AI compute megafactory aimed at easing global chip and compute shortages. Separately, SpaceX | xAI revealed plans to…