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Arthur T Knackerbracket [soylentnews.org] writes:

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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/musks-terafab-projected-to-be-larger-than-the-pentagon-apple-park-mall-of-america-and-giga-texas-combined-all-in-one-chip-manufacturing-facility-visualized-to-show-the-projects-massive-footprint [tomshardware.com]

Elon Musk started talking about building his own chip manufacturing facility [tomshardware.com] in late 2025 and officially announced the project [tomshardware.com] in March of this year. The reasoning behind this project is that both SpaceX and Tesla will require at least 1TW of compute, which is more than ten times that current global chip supply.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned that a project like this will be an “extremely hard” challenge [tomshardware.com], but it appears that Musk is willing to put his massive resources on the line for this. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan even said that he can “think of no better partner than Elon Musk” [tomshardware.com] to explore “unconventional” ways of chip manufacturing.

Musk is no stranger to both leading and funding projects that otherwise seemed impossible. Although he did not found Tesla, his investment and leadership in the company led it to become an industry trailblazer in EVs. He fundamentally changed commercial space travel with SpaceX; something that used to be the purview of NASA and other national governments, and he also broke a record when he set up 100,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs in just 19 days [tomshardware.com] back in 2024 — a process which Huang said usually takes four years.

It seems that Terafab is Musk’s biggest project to date, which is estimated to require up to $119 billion [tomshardware.com] in investments. But even though it seems that this project already has a secure customer base in SpaceX and Tesla, the former acknowledges that there’s a risk that this ambitious megafactory may not be successful [tomshardware.com].

Jowi Morales is a tech enthusiast with years of experience working in the industry. He’s been writing with several tech publications since 2021, where he’s been interested in tech hardware and consumer electronics.

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