Tesla Hires 17-Year Intel Veteran Gary Jiang as Director of Terafab
Tesla appoints Gary Jiang, a semiconductor manufacturing expert with nearly 18 years at Intel, as Director of Tera Fab to lead the Austin chip fab project. His background in 18A process ramp, factory management, and high-volume production is seen as critical for execution.
Key facts
- First named senior leadership hire for Terafab
- Jiang previously managed Intel's Ocotillo campus and 18A technology transfer
- Role focuses on fab build-out, yield ramp, and scaling to high-volume AI chip production
- Signals shift from planning to active construction and operations phase
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.
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- basenor.com Tesla Poaches Intel Manufacturing Veteran for Terafab Texas Terafab is a joint venture between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI announced by Elon Musk on March 21, 2026, in Austin. The project's stated ambition is sweeping: integrate every stage of semiconductor production under one roof — chip design, lithography, fabrication, memory production, advanced packaging, and testing — targeting an annual output of one terawatt (one trillion watts) of computing power.
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- electrek.co Tesla poaches 17-year Intel veteran to lead its 'Terafab' chip plant | Electrek 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.
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- eletric-vehicles.com Tesla Taps Intel Veteran Gary Jiang to Lead Terafab Chip Fab | EV 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
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- trendforce.com [News] Musk’s TeraFab Lands First Major Hire as 18-Year Intel Veteran With 18A Experience Joins as Director 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.
- AIM Network ALERT: Elon Musk's Terafab Becomes Real as Tesla Hires Intel's Top Chip Maker - YouTube Tesla TeraFab is the company's answer to its massive silicon supply chain problem. Learn how this project aims to secure chip production.✅ Cypher 2026: Join ...
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- @muskonomy Muskonomy on X: "NEWS: Tesla has hired a 17 year Intel veteran, Gary Jiang, to lead its Terafab chip plant, his LinkedIn profile shows Jiang is the first named leader for Tesla's plan to build advanced chips in house. He now lists his role as Director, Terafab, based on site in Austin. At https://t.co/FjMvS20bJY" / X 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.
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- digitimes.com Tesla taps Intel 18A veteran to lead Terafab chip project in Texas Tesla has hired Gary Jiang, a nearly 18-year Intel manufacturing veteran, as director of its Terafab chip project in Texas, marking the first publicly identified senior leadership appointment tied to Elon Musk's ambitious semiconductor manufacturing plan.
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- electrek.co Electrek | EV and Tesla News, Green Energy, Ebikes, and more 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.
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- driveteslacanada.ca Tesla hires Intel veteran Gary Jiang to lead Terafab chip factory project in Texas Jiang was involved in several of ... fab construction and tool installation, and preparations for high-volume production. Earlier positions included management roles across Intel’s 14nm and 22nm manufacturing operations, according to his LinkedIn profile. The addition of Jiang represents the first major leadership appointment to emerge publicly for Terafab, the massive semiconductor manufacturing effort unveiled earlier this year by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI...
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- aroged.com Tesla lured Intel veteran to head giant Terafab chip plant - Aroged 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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- trendforce.com News | TrendForce According to Wccftech, Gary Jiang is Tesla's first major hire for the initiative. Jiang announced the move on his LinkedIn profile, where he lists his new role as Director, Tera Fab, a position he assumed in June 2026 and...
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- itreseller.pl ITReseller | Gary Jiang przechodzi z Intela do Tesli: Nowy dyrektor TeraFab w Austin | ITReseller Gary Jiang, ekspert z osiemnastoletnim stażem w Intelu, objął stanowisko dyrektora w projekcie TeraFab realizowanym przez Teslę.
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- zamin.uz Tesla and Intel Collaboration: Experienced Specialist Appointed to Lead Terafab Project – Zamin.uz, 01.07.2026 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.
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- x.com Muskonomy on X: "NEWS: Tesla has hired a 17 year Intel veteran, Gary Jiang, to lead its Terafab chip plant, his LinkedIn profile shows Jiang is the first named leader for Tesla's plan to build advanced chips in house. He now lists his role as Director, Terafab, based on site in Austin. At https://t.co/FjMvS20bJY" / X 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.
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- hardwarecooking.fr Terafab : la méga-usine à puces d’Elon Musk recrute un vétéran d’Intel pour piloter un investissement pouvant atteindre 119 milliards de dollars 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 […]
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- tipranks.com Tesla Draws from Intel to Head Up Terafab, Tesla Stock (NASDAQ:TSLA) Gains - TipRanks.com Tesla hired Gary Jiang, who had been part of Intel’s manufacturing operations, to head up the Terafab chip fabrication plant. Jiang had been with Intel for around 18 years before pivoting to Tesla, and subsequently confirmed the move on his LinkedIn profile.
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- stocktwits.com Tesla Ropes In Intel Veteran To Lead Elon Musk’s Ambitious Terafab Project 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....
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- myengineers.com.ng Tesla Hires Intel Veteran To Help Drive Elon Musk's Terafab Chip Ambitions - My Engineers “Imagine being a job seeker and being able to instantly know what skills are needed for the available jobs in a desired city, like Denver, and then to be prompted to take the relevant and accredited course to help you acquire this skill. Or doing a search on SlideShare to learn about integrated marketing and then to be prompted with a lynda.com course on the same subject.” ... Tesla has hired Gary Jiang, a veteran of over seventeen years at Intel, in a move seen as the first major senior leaders
- af.net Tesla Taps Intel 18A Veteran Gary Jiang to Lead $119 Billion Terafab Chip Project | AIFOD | AI FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES FORUM Tesla has hired Gary Jiang, a veteran ... in Texas. The $119 billion initiative aims to produce vast AI compute capacity to support upscaling manufacturing of Optimus humanoid robots and other AI applications....
- gurufocus.com Tesla (TSLA) Hires Intel Veteran to Boost Terafab Project Potential Elon Musk has indicated that the ... The initiative is backed by a substantial initial investment proposal of $55 billion, with the potential to escalate to approximately $119 billion if all phases are realized...
- ic-pcb.com Tesla Recruits Intel 18a Manufacturing Veteran Gary Jiang As It Builds Out 'terafab' Chip Ambitions- Ic&pcb Union 52 or Fab 62 development. His appointment at Tesla comes as the company has been seeking a Technical Program Manager for semiconductor infrastructure since March, with the role still unfilled. Terafab, a joint concept involving Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, therefore ...
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- notateslaapp.com Tesla Hires Intel Veteran for TERAFAB Chip Project - Not a Tesla App Musk first broke down his vision for TERAFAB at a launch event back in March, positioning it as the most ambitious chip-building project in human history. The concept aims to bring together the combined technological forces of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI (which SpaceX now owns) to consolidate chip design, advanced packaging, fabrication...
- wccftech.com Musk's Terafab Scores 18 Year Intel Veteran As Foundry Manager For $55 Billion Chip Manufacturing Project Tesla's Terafab project, through which Elon Musk aims to support his space AI and robotic chip needs, has managed to bring an Intel veteran on board. Intel is Tesla's partner for the Terafab project and has partnered with the firm through its ...
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- citybiz.co Gary Jiang Joins Tesla's Terafab Project, a Potential Positive for Intel, Wedbush Says | citybiz Tesla has hired former Intel executive Gary Jiang to help lead its Terafab semiconductor manufacturing project, a move Wedbush Securities believes could become a positive catalyst for Intel as it works to expand its advanced chipmaking business.
- seekingalpha.com Tesla hiring Intel vet to help with Terafab seen as 'positive catalyst' for chip giant: Wedbush | Seeking Alpha Tesla’s Terafab hires ex-Intel vet Gary Jiang, boosting hopes for Intel’s 14A chip process and prospects vs. TSMC.
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- tessi-supply.com Tesla verstärkt Terafab-Team: Gary Jiang übernimmt Schlüsselrolle für die KI-Chip-Produktion In seiner neuen Position wird er eine zentrale Rolle beim Aufbau und der Skalierung von Teslas geplanter Terafab in Austin übernehmen – einer hochautomatisierten Fabrik für die Produktion von KI-Hardware der nächsten Generation.
- semidoped.com Daily Update - July 7th, 2026 - Semi Doped Tesla hired 17-year Intel fab veteran Gary Jiang, likely to oversee Terafab’s licensing of Intel’s 14A process.
- tomshardware.com Tesla hires 17-year Intel veteran responsible for billion-dollar fab startups — Gary Jiang likely chosen to oversee fab efforts for Terafab's licensing of 14A | Tom's Hardware Tesla has been looking for a Technical ... on end-to-end fab program delivery, since March, but without any success, as the job listing is still listed on the company's website. Therefore, Terafab — the joint initiative between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI — still does not have ...
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