Elon Musk Unveils Chip Manufacturing Plans For Spacex And Tesla

Elon Musk precocious outlined eager plans for a chip-building collaboration betwixt his companies Tesla and SpaceX.

Bloomberg reports that Musk shared his plans connected Saturday nighttime astatine an arena successful downtown Austin, Texas, pinch a photograph suggesting that what Musk is calling nan “Terafab” installation will beryllium built adjacent Tesla’s Austin office and “gigafactory.”

Musk said he’s pursuing this task because semiconductor manufacturers aren’t making chips quickly capable for his companies’ artificial intelligence and robotics needs: “We either build nan Terafab aliases we don’t person nan chips, and we request nan chips, truthful we build nan Terafab.”

The extremity is to manufacture chips that tin support 100 to 200 gigawatts of computing powerfulness per twelvemonth connected Earth, on pinch a terawatt successful space, Musk said. He did not connection a timeline for these plans.

As Bloomberg noted, Musk does not person a inheritance successful semiconductor manufacturing, but he does person a history of overpromising connected goals and timelines.