Elon Musk lately outlined bold plans for a chip-building collaboration between his firms Tesla and SpaceX.
Bloomberg reports that Musk shared his plans on Saturday night time at an occasion in downtown Austin, Texas, with a photograph suggesting that what Musk is looking the “Terafab” facility will likely be constructed close to Tesla’s Austin headquarters and “gigafactory.”
Musk stated he’s pursuing this challenge as a result of semiconductor producers aren’t making chips shortly sufficient for his firms’ synthetic intelligence and robotics wants: “We both construct the Terafab or we don’t have the chips, and we want the chips, so we construct the Terafab.”
The aim is to fabricate chips that may assist 100 to 200 gigawatts of computing energy per yr on Earth, together with a terawatt in area, Musk stated. He didn’t supply a timeline for these plans.
As Bloomberg famous, Musk doesn’t have a background in semiconductor manufacturing, however he does have a historical past of overpromising on objectives and timelines.
