Electrek notes that hiring an Intel 18A factory manager as Director of Terafab marks a meaningful step in building Tesla’s semiconductor manufacturing expertise. However, the report cautions that a single leadership hire cannot replace the decades of experience and institutional knowledge required to operate a leading-edge fab, and that the greater challenge will be successfully executing the project and achieving high production yields.
The Terafab project is astonishing the tech world with its scale. According to Tesla, an initial investment of $55 billion is planned for the first phase. If all stages are fully completed, the total investment could reach $119 billion.
The same export-control mechanism that caps SMIC also protects TSMC’s leading-edge share, and SMIC erodes only China-market mature-node demand (China is already down to 9% of revenue). Customer in-housing of design (Google TPU, AWS Trainium, Microsoft Maia) actually helps TSMC by diversifying its base, since all of it still fabs at TSMC. In-housing of manufacturing (Tesla “Terafab”) is years away and capital-prohibitive.
Tesla has hired a 17-year Intel manufacturing veteran, Gary Jiang, to serve as “Director, Terafab,” the first named leadership hire tied to the automaker’s ambitious Austin chip fab project.
Meta Platforms is considering such a move, while Nvidia recently raised over $25 billion in debt. Tesla has already warned that it will not generate positive cash flows this year because of its Terafab
Le projet Terafab, porté par Elon Musk afin de sécuriser la production de puces destinées à ses activités dans l’intelligence artificielle, la robotique et l’aérospatial, franchit une nouvelle étape importante. Tesla et SpaceX viennent en effet de s’attacher les services d’un cadre expérimenté d’Intel pour superviser ce qui pourrait devenir l’un des plus ambitieux projets […]
Judging by his resume, he has experience in organizing mass production of chips literally from scratch. Tesla, as one of the participants in the joint venture, began actively hiring personnel for Terafab last month. The project itself to build a giant plant for producing chips was announced by Tesla and SpaceX in March.
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Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) stock has had no shortage of catalysts driving its amazing comeback over the past year. A partnership with Nvidia, a U.S. government equity stake, and the newly formed Terafab initiative have all helped propel the shares more than 500% higher over the last twelve months.
At Intel he spent nearly 18 years, most recently running its cutting edge 18A process. That covered tool installation and factory ramp, exactly the skill Tesla lacks. Terafab is Tesla's chip fab project with SpaceX and Intel, announced in March.
The initiative aims to build a ... The project is designed to combine chip design, lithography, fabrication, memory production, advanced packaging, and testing under one roof to accelerate development cycles....
Early this year, SpaceX acquired xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, which is now working with Tesla Inc. and SpaceX on a massive computer chip-making facility Musk has dubbed Terafab.
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Tesla and SpaceX announced the “Terafab” project in March, pitching a facility on the North Campus of Giga Texas that would consolidate chip design, lithography, fabrication, memory, advanced packaging, and testing under one roof.
Terafab is the in-house semiconductor venture Tesla and SpaceX unveiled on March 21 at a livestreamed event from the defunct Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, where Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk called it “the most epic chip building exercise in history by far.” · The plan is to consolidate chip design, lithography, fabrication, memory, advanced packaging and testing under one roof, so that new chip revisions can be produced and tested in days rather than the months a conventional supply chain