Terafab: Why Do Tiny Chips Need The Biggest Factory On Earth?

Computer chips are tiny, and the workings inside them keep getting smaller. So why does Elon Musk want a chip factory five times bigger than the biggest building on Earth? A London cabbie explains Terafab in plain English.

Terafab is the chip factory Tesla and SpaceX plan to build in Grimes County, Texas, with Intel bringing the know-how. In this video: what a chip actually does, why something so small needs a factory so big, whether it will really get built (with a detour to a lost taxi rank at Euston and HS2), and how it fits into a chain of SpaceX mega-projects.

Next in the story, Starbase Louisiana: https://youtu.be/msah7WTn4JI?si=EUTpw6aK3cJp8_v5

CHAPTERS

0:00 Tiny chips, giant factory

0:27 What does a chip actually do?

1:33 Enter Terafab

1:55 Why the factory has to be so big

3:29 What HS2 taught a London cabbie

5:03 Will Terafab actually get built?

5:30 One link in a chain

6:15 The piece that's still missing

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