Musk says he’s building a TerraFab chip factory in Austin, Texas

Elon Musk announced plans to build TerraFab A factory in Austin, Texas, which will be jointly operated by Tesla and SpaceX. The goal is to eventually build large-scale chips for robotics, artificial intelligence, and… Satellite data centers For various musk companies.

Musk has expressed concern, as have other executives, about the chip industry’s ability to do this Keeping up with demand Such as the artificial intelligence industry I have thrived. But building a chip manufacturing plant is complex, requiring billions of dollars, many years, and tons of specialized equipment. And as Bloomberg “Musk has no background in semiconductor production, nor does he have a history of overpromising on goals and timelines,” Musk points out.

according to Bloomberg“We either build a terafab or we don’t have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build a terafab,” Musk said, before outlining plans to produce chips that could support up to 200 gigawatts per year of computing power on Earth, and up to a terawatt in space. While Musk provided some details about how much computing power he expects TerraFab to produce, he did not provide a timeline for when those goals might be achieved, or even when the facility might be operational.