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Elon Musk has outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration between his companies Tesla and SpaceX, according to Bloomberg.
Musk shared the proposal on Saturday night at an event in downtown Austin, Texas, where he presented a photo suggesting that the “Terafab” facility would be built near Tesla’s Austin headquarters and its “gigafactory.”
Musk said he is pursuing the project because semiconductor manufacturers are not producing chips quickly enough to meet the needs of his companies’ artificial intelligence and robotics efforts. “We either build the Terafab or we don’t have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the Terafab,” he said.
He also described the intended scale of production, saying the facility would be designed to manufacture chips capable of supporting 100 to 200 gigawatts of computing power per year on Earth, along with a terawatt in space. Musk did not provide a timeline for the plans.
Bloomberg noted that Musk does not have a background in semiconductor manufacturing, while also pointing to his history of setting ambitious goals and timelines.
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