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March 14 (Reuters) - Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the company's Terafab project to make artificial intelligence chips will launch in seven days.
Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with @SpaceX, @xAI, and @Tesla to help refactor silicon fab technology. Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab's aim to produce ...
U.S. chipmaker Intel said on Tuesday it would join SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla to help build Terafab, an ambitious plan to construct a series of large semiconductor fabs to produce chips for robotaxis, humanoid robots, and solar-powered data centers in space. “Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 terawatt a year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics,” Intel wrote in a post on X.
Intel already has facility on South MoPac Expressway in Austin. Last year, the company laid off 110 local employees as part of a plan to cut as much as 20% of its global workforce.
Morgan Stanley's semiconductor analysts described the effort as "a Herculean task" and estimated total capital expenditure at $35 to $45 billion for the pilot alone, including $20 to $25 billion for wafer fabrication equipment.
The TeraFab initiative is anchored in Tesla’s facilities in Austin, Texas, reflecting a broader push toward localized semiconductor production.
The sharp increase follows Intel's announcement of Google's commitment to use Xeon processors for years to come, which emphasizes relevance of Intel's CPUs; the TeraFab partnership, which gives a nod to Intel's capabilities in design, produce, and package high-performance processors at scale; and a host of various AI-related narratives meant to demonstrate applicability of the company's products in the rapidly growing artificial intelligence sector.Article continues belo
TeraFab, originally introduced as a joint venture between Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX, now also includes Musk’s AI startup, xAI. According to Musk, the project aims to produce chips for Tesla’s robotaxis and Optimus robots, as well as specialized semiconductors for SpaceX’s planned network of AI-powered orbital data centers...
Another key focus of the conference will be the competitive landscape between TSMC and rivals such as Samsung and the Terafab project, jointly promoted by Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, which aims to build a semiconductor fab in Austin, Texas.
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And there’s also memory price surges hitting Raspberry Pi boards, and Intel joining with Elon Musk’s Terafab…
On Tuesday, Intel joined the Terafab project as a key partner alongside Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, aiming to produce 1 terawatt of annual compute capacity at the North Campus of Giga Texas in Austin.
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An additional problem is the infrastructure. A factory the size of Terafab would require more than 10,000 lithography machines, while ASML currently produces fewer than 200 EUV systems per year.
In a livestream event on March 22, Elon Musk unveiled what he called Terafab—a proposed semiconductor megafactory intended to produce unprecedented levels of AI computing hardware.
Tesla (TSLA, Financials) shares moved higher after Intel joined Elon Musk's Terafab semiconductor project, giving investors fresh confidence in the company's long-term AI ambitions.
Terafab is Musk’s ambitious plan to eventually manufacture custom chips for robotics, artificial intelligence and space-based data centers.
And recently, Musk unveiled the TeraFab: a colossal joint venture between Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture chips at a scale the industry has never come close to witnessing—securing Tesla's chip supply for decades of robotaxi and Optimus growth.
Last month, Musk unveiled SpaceX and Tesla’s plan for two advanced chip factories in Austin, Texas. They are prioritizing Terafab, a huge fabrication plant for massive chip output to power Tesla’s AI push amid booming demand.
When Musk unveiled the project in March, the presentation implied that Tesla and SpaceX would stand up a vertically integrated chip manufacturing operation—encompassing lithography, fabrication, memory, and advanced packaging. In other words, Terafab would function as the latest expression of the first-principles engineering that characterised Tesla’s battery and powertrain development.