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In April, Intel rolled out it will be joining the Terafab project to help "design, fabricate
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During Tesla's first-quarter earnings call last month, Musk said Tesla plans to use Intel's forthcoming 14A process to produce chips at the facility.
Key facts
- Elon Musk's plans for a huge chip manufacturing plant in East Texas will cost at least $55 billion for the first phase, and up to $119 billion if the full buildout comes to fruition
- Ben Bajarin, a chip analyst at Creative Strategies, said Musk is embarking on a "15-year strategy," knowing that his companies need to control the supply chain as "it would be very, hard for them
- Grimes County will hold a public hearing on June 3, to consider the proposed tax breaks
- WATCH: Nvidia snaps up capacity for a key part of AI chipmaking
Summary
Elon Musk's plans for a huge chip manufacturing plant in East Texas will cost at least $55 billion for the first phase, and up to $119 billion if the full buildout comes to fruition. The estimated capital investment amounts were disclosed in a public hearing notice on Wednesday in Grimes County, Texas, home of the prospective facility. Grimes County will hold a public hearing on June 3, to consider the proposed tax breaks. Musk, who's also CEO of Tesla, is aiming for Terafab to be the "most epic chip-building effort ever, combining logic, memory and advanced packaging under one roof," according to a post on X last month from SpaceX, which now owns artificial intelligence company xAI. The chip complex outside Austin would be designed to manufacture chips for SpaceX, xAI and Tesla, and would be jointly built by those companies.