Elon Musk is ambitious, and we can see that with multiple examples ranging from SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI. Now, the Tesla boss has announced TeraFab, a semiconductor manufacturing facility roadmap, to build chips needed to power the future. It will bring together three firms by Musk – xAI, SpaceX, and Tesla. And the goal of the companies is to create a galactic civilisation so humans could become immortal in a way. With the thing in place, the memories and ideas of individuals can be preserved and passed on for generations.
Mask revealed the TeraFab project in a live event in at the Seaholm Power PLant in downtown Austin, Texas. At the launch, he said that the project is an attempt to build computing infrastructure needed for what her called a ‘multi-planetary’ and eventually ‘galactic civilisation.’ As per the Tesla CEO, the scale of AI computing required in the future is so large that the current chip producing fabs cannot keep up with that. This is a major reason why he has decided to bring SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI together to build a dedicated facility capable of producing an unprecedented number of modified processors.
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For those who are unaware of the basics, TeraFab will be led by Tesla in partnership with xAI and SpaceX. The project is expected to cost between $20 billion and $25 billion, and the factory could eventually produce between 100 and 200 billion advanced 2-nanometre AI chips every year. That number in terms of production is still way beyond the capacity any other semiconductor fabs have as of now. And the chips produced at TeraFab are expected to power everything from Tesla cars and even humanoid Optimus robots to massive AI data centres in space.
The chips made at TeraFab will serve two main purposes – one is for Tesla products, and the other D3 one is being designed to withstand space environments. The processors are intended to power orbital AI data centres that SpaceX may launch via Starship rockets.
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