BackyardProduction/iStock via Getty Images Tesla ( TSLA ) and SpaceX's ( SPACE ) proposed titanic Terafab chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, likely signals a first step towards an eventual merger as soon as next year, according to Wedbush. Over the weekend, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled plans for a new semiconductor venture, dubbed Terafab, to be built in Austin, Texas. It will ...
BackyardProduction/iStock via Getty Images Tesla ( TSLA ) and SpaceX's ( SPACE ) proposed titanic Terafab chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, likely signals a first step towards an eventual merger as soon as next year, according to Wedbush. Over the weekend, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled plans for a new semiconductor venture, dubbed Terafab, to be built in Austin, Texas. It will be composed of two advanced chip factories operated jointly by Tesla and SpaceX, as Musk seeks greater control over semiconductor supply for AI, robotics, and space computing. "This Terafab project with both SpaceX and Tesla is expected to cost up to $25 billion to produce at TSLA's Giga Texas, making it the largest semiconductor fab in human history, which focuses on chip design, lithography, fabrication, memory production, advanced packaging, and testing," said Wedbush analysts in a Wednesday investor report. "The initial production target is expected to reach 100k wafer starts per month, which would then scale to 1 million wafer starts per month, which would represent ~70% of TSMC's global output, with the goal of producing 100 billion – 200 billion custom AI and memory chips per year to power TSLA FSD, Cybercab, and Optimus manufacturing lines." "With TSMC and Samsung not scaling its chip production enough to meet Musk's goals, this facility will ramp over time to meet his companies' demand for computing power that is actively outweighing current supply, with current AI compute output at ~20 gigawatts per year, with this representing ~2% of the companies' needs," Wedbush noted. SpaceX recently merged with Musk's xAI ( X.AI ). "While the timeline for this project is uncertain, this will accelerate the company's ambitious AI path, which we believe will set the foundation for TSLA to become an AI powerhouse over the coming years, with chip and memory supply expected to be the greatest constraint," they added. "We also believe this is the first step to ultimately what will ...