Breaking down Tesla's 1Q 2026 result

Regarding Terafab (Tesla’s chip fab), the company plans to start building a Research Fab at Giga Texas this year. The $3B project will produce several thousand wafers per month.

Elon Musk lays out Terafab AI chip project plan | MarketScreener

... Musk's SpaceX, its xAI unit and Tesla will build two advanced chip factories at a sprawling facility in Austin, one to be used in Tesla vehicles and Optimus humanoid robots, and another designed for AI data centers in space.

Elon Musk wants to move at 'light speed' on the Terafab project

Read more: Intel joins Tesla's TeraFab chip project with SpaceX and xAI to meet growing demand for AI and robotics · Read more: Tesla could be the next big chipmaker, AI5 to rival NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell · Musk has recently criticized TSMC and other existing fabs for not having sufficient capacity to meet Tesla's and his other companies' needs.

SpaceX Moves to Manufacture GPUs for AI Infrastructure | Let's Data Science

The effort is linked to joint work with **Tesla** and **xAI** on the Terafab complex in Austin, Texas, and comments from **Elon Musk** referenced Intel's `14A` node. The announcement signals deep vertical integration but leaves timelines, process ...

Tesla raises 2026 capex to $25 billion

Tesla plans to more than double its AI compute capacity in roughly six months. The company is also building a semiconductor research facility, referred to as a “Terafab”, in Austin, Texas, focused on chip design.

Intel Needed A Lifeline. It Just Got One — And It's Got Elon Musk's Name On It

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk, speaking at the company’s first-quarter 2026 earnings call on Sunday, said that the company plans to use Intel Corp's next-generation 14A manufacturing process for chips at Terafab, the advanced AI chip complex he has envisioned in Austin.