SpaceX’s Texas Terafab Could Become World’s Largest Building

Tesla has also expanded aggressively in the state, moving its headquarters to Austin in 2021 and continuing to grow its Gigafactory campus, which is expected to exceed 15 million square feet by the end of 2026.

SpaceX, Tesla to Spend $16.8B on Terafab Chip Factory in Texas

SpaceX merged with Musk’s AI company xAI (which has been renamed SpaceXAI) earlier this year, bringing its AI efforts and plans for space-based data centers under the same corporate umbrella. SpaceX subsequently went public in June in what became the largest IPO in history. Intel is also expected to contribute to the Terafab project, with the company revealing its involvement in April this year.

Terafab Compute Split: Why Spacecraft Get 3× More Than Optimus

Announced formally in early August 2026, it is a joint venture between Tesla and SpaceX designed to handle the full chip lifecycle — manufacturing, packaging, and testing of advanced logic and memory devices — under one roof.

Tesla & SpaceX Texas Investments: 4 Details That Matter

Terafab is designed to manufacture, package, and test advanced logic and memory chips in-house — the kind that will power Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots, Cybercabs, and next-generation high-performance processors.

Giga Texas Chip Fab Foundation and Megapack Expansion Push Forward

According to public filings and reporting, the main Terafab manufacturing complex has been confirmed for Grimes County, Texas, north of Houston, with an initial investment of $16.8 billion and total potential spending that could reach $119 billion ...

Elon Musk’s Terafab takes first step toward challenging Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, and CXMT in memory chips

The processor is also expected to feature Qualcomm’s Adreno 850 GPU, which could bring a significant boost to gaming and graphics-intensive workloads. ... A separate benchmark leak has already surfaced for the SM8975, although the early numbers reportedly do not fully reflect the chip’s potential, possibly because of power limitations during testing. That said, a 2nm-class process, 5GHz-plus CPU cores and a new-generation Adreno GPU make the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 an intriguing candida

Terafab Texas Is Official - by Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

Construction on civil work and foundations is expected to begin almost immediately, with main building activity following within months. Volume production at the Austin research fab is targeted for 2027; the full Grimes County buildout will ...