Elon Musk's SpaceX submits plans for $55B Terafab chip facility

Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) has filed plans to invest $55 billion into building a Terafab facility in Texas, which will allow the company to produce in-house chips for its AI and robotics projects.

Elon Musk lays out Terafab AI chip project plan | Reuters

Tesla chief Elon Musk said on Wednesday the electric vehicle maker plans to use Intel's next-generation 14A manufacturing process to make chips at its Terafab project, an advanced artificial-intelligence chip complex Musk has envisioned in Texas.

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Musk mentioned that the current capacity of the semiconductor industry meets only about 2% of his companies' expected long-term computing requirements. Terafab intends to localize this production in the United States, aiming for annual output measured in terawatts of computational power.

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Musk described Terafab as a pivotal step toward humanity becoming a galactic civilization, with the announcement accompanied by a live SpaceX broadcast on X and conceptual imagery of prototype 100 kW "AI Mini Sat." He went on to describe that the global chip industry cannot expand quickly enough to meet the demand that Tesla will need for "edge inference compute" for Tesla vehicle and Optimus humanoid robot production, nor for the special semiconductor characteristics require