Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla

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

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

Musk said he’s pursuing this task due to the fact that semiconductor manufacturers aren’t making chips rapidly capable for his companies’ artificial quality and robotics needs: “We either physique the Terafab oregon we don’t person the chips, and we request the chips, truthful we physique the Terafab.”

The extremity is to manufacture chips that tin enactment 100 to 200 gigawatts of computing powerfulness per twelvemonth connected Earth, on with 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 helium does person a past of overpromising connected goals and timelines.