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SpaceX bought xAI in February, folding in the Colossus data centers and the Grok models, so it has frontier AI in-house. It is building chip packaging at its Bastrop, Texas campus this year and has floated a 55 billion dollar Terafab chip plant ...
And between Tesla's competitive position potentially eroding and SpaceX needing plenty of cash to fund its growth ambitions, a merger between the two companies may indeed make a lot of sense, especially given that the two businesses are working on Terafab, a giant chip factory, and other initiatives together.
The week’s most powerful catalyst came from Elon Musk, who appeared by video at ASML’s own technology conference to pitch the Terafab project, a vertically integrated semiconductor venture involving Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, with Intel contributing its 14A process technology. A Texas?based fab is slated to start with $55 billion in investment and could eventually absorb as much as $119 billion. Musk’s message was unequivocal: ASML is the indispensable supplier, because it is the world’s sole produc
“This represents MediaTek’s strategic window,” Kuo stated. He emphasized that sustained success hinges on MediaTek capitalizing on Taiwan’s robust hardware manufacturing ecosystem and its collaboration with Terafab, while acknowledging the initiative “currently lacks definitive timeline clarity.”
Diamandis also cited Tesla’s Gigafactory and SpaceX’s Terafab projects, saying that they borrow resources and deliver products to each other.
Musk is planning a massive chip fabrication facility in Texas called Terafab, with an expected buildout cost of $55 billion to $119 billion. The project is designed to produce chips for Tesla and SpaceX, which now owns xAI.
Chips are also a key AI industry ... on space data centers: "Semiconductor production ... is a 'universal' constraint on all chip deployment, whether deployed on Earth or in Space ... Elon Musk is clearly well aware of this constraint, and it is the impetus behind his Terafab ...
In March 2026 Tesla unveiled the Terafab project: a $25 billion chip factory in Austin, developed jointly with SpaceX and Intel. The goal is outright independence from external semiconductor suppliers.
The centrepiece of Tesla’s hardware push is the Terafab project in Austin, Texas. Announced in March 2026, the €25 billion semiconductor plant is a joint venture with SpaceX and Intel.
"Rubin ramp at xAI is perhaps the reason for Google and Anthropic approaching xAI with large multi-year contracts," it noted, pointing to a combined $75 billion in agreements between xAI and the two companies. On the semiconductor equipment side, Lynx sees Lam Research, Applied Materials, ASML, and KLA as key beneficiaries of Terafab’s buildout, with wafer fabrication equipment demand of roughly $25 to $30 billion expected over 2027-28.
Not to mention all the blue-collar and middle-management jobs in around the SpaceX Starbase outside Brownsville, Texas, his Tesla gigafactory in Bastrop, Texas and his Terafab plant near College Station and other companies all together employing around 150,00 people (plus all the people selling food, car, clothing etcetera to those workers).
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX,appeared at ASML's annual technology conference shortly before SpaceX's IPOto unveil thesemiconductor manufacturing project 'Terafab,' initially valued at $55 billion (potentially scaling up to $119 billion).explained.
The analysts said they viewed recent reports that Intel could soon strike a deal with Apple (AAPL), along with Intel's agreement to help supply Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX's Terafab, as "supportive data points" for the business.
Elon Musk launches TERAFAB: The $25B Tesla-SpaceXAI chip factory that will rewire the AI industry
Beyond computing power leasing, SpaceX is also expanding its ecosystem horizontally. The company is collaborating with Tesla and Intel to rapidly advance the 'Terafab' project, aiming to build a multi-layered commercial ecosystem spanning space, computing, and manufacturing.
On the night of March 21, 2026, Musk posted to X: “Formal announcement of the TERAFAB project, which will be done jointly by SpaceX and Tesla,…
Tesla's Terafab is a $25B bet on 2nm chip manufacturing targeting 100K wafer starts per month. If it works, Tesla cuts dependence on TSMC and Nvidia for AI hardware.
SpaceX has separately disclosed a longer-term 'Terafab' chip fabrication plan in rural Texas, with a projected investment of approximately $55 billion [9]. SpaceX's disclosed roadmap calls for two prototype AI1 satellites to launch in early 2027, followed by a production ramp targeting approximately 1 GW per year of orbital AI compute capacity by late 2027.
capacity and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. TERAFAB is designed to · consolidate the full semiconductor production lifecycle—including integrated circuit design, photomask generation, wafer fabrication, advanced packaging, and system-level integration,
Though Musk says that the AI satellites are simpler in architecture, that’s a lot to ask for a production facility that hasn’t been built yet. The company is also still building out its solar panel production facility. That’s before we get to Terafab, the company’s much-discussed chip foundry, which Musk sees feeding into the later stages of this product as the company tries to scale up to a terawatt of annual compute production.