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- Terafab reportedly targets 1 million wafers a month by 2032
Multiple reports citing Nikkei say Tesla and SpaceX semiconductor venture Terafab told equipment suppliers it aims to produce 1 million wafers per month by 2032, including 700,000 memory wafers and 300,000 logic wafers. The memory target is comparable to Samsung’s reported DRAM capacity of about 650,000 to 700,000 wafers per month. Terafab remains in an early development stage and has not demonstrated large-scale mass production.
Wccftech · 🔥 28 - US midterms rattle AI markets and Tesla-SpaceX
BBC Technology reported that Democratic gains in the US midterms contributed to a sharp AI-related technology selloff as investors considered tighter regulation of data centers and AI investment. cnBeta reported that Tesla and SpaceX fell about 11% and 9%, respectively, losing a combined market value of roughly $456 billion as regulatory scrutiny and concerns about their preliminary merger discussions increased. Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa also called for pausing approvals for new data centers until stronger protections for local communities are established.
cnBeta · 🔥 0 - SpaceX’s 2027 AI datacenter estimate rises to about 13GW
SemiAnalysis reports that SpaceX has about 3.6GW of data-center capacity under construction across multiple sites and has identified more than 9GW of potential capacity at Colossus, Starbase and other tracked locations. The firm says SpaceX’s estimate for 2027 has risen to approximately 13GW, while Elon Musk has claimed high confidence that the company could build 10GW during that year. These figures are estimates or targets rather than confirmed operating capacity, and power availability, grid connections, permitting, emissions rules and hardware supply could constrain the rollout.
SemiAnalysis · 🔥 0 - Musk Reportedly Seeks to Renegotiate TSMC's Role in Terafab
DigiTimes supply-chain reporting, repeated by Wccftech and other outlets, says Musk may reopen talks with TSMC over operational control, joint investment, technical cooperation and advanced packaging for Terafab. TSMC CEO C.C. Wei previously said the company sent a team to Texas to evaluate capacity cooperation and that any participating fab would need to be operated by TSMC. No formal agreement has been announced, and ownership, investment shares and division of responsibilities remain unsettled.
cnBeta · 🔥 0 - Intel CTO Says Leading-Edge Wafer Output Can Roughly Double
Intel CTO Pushkar Ranade told the Dwarkesh Podcast that global leading-edge wafer output could roughly double rather than increase tenfold, even with sufficient funding. IT之家 and The Next Web reported that equipment suppliers, their upstream suppliers, and sub-suppliers must expand together, while EUV tool lead times of about 18 months constrain new capacity. Ranade also said AI compute had grown about threefold annually over the previous decade, though the reports provide no independent methodology for that figure.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Tesla plans rising capital spending on Optimus, AI compute and chip fabs
Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja said capital expenditure will keep expanding over the next several years, covering Robotaxi fleet expansion, Optimus capacity, solar manufacturing, AI-compute infrastructure procurement and chip-fab construction. Taneja said Tesla currently plans about $20 billion in capital spending this year, compared with an earlier forecast of more than $25 billion; the reports did not explain the change. Elon Musk said the Terafab superchip-fab project would require tens of billions of dollars and that its long-term investment could exceed $100 billion. These figures and plans were reported by company executives and were not independently verified.
cnBeta · 🔥 0 - Musk sets aspirational 2028 target for Terafab chip production
Elon Musk said on a SpaceX earnings call that Terafab, the chip-manufacturing joint venture of SpaceX and Tesla, plans to commission equipment in the first half of 2027 and produce its first working SRAM test chip around May or June at its Austin R&D site. The company targets volume production in the third or fourth quarter of 2028 at a planned Texas facility designed to fabricate logic and memory chips and conduct advanced packaging and testing. The project also has an annual goal of 1 terawatt of computing capacity for AI and robotics. Musk described the schedule as highly aspirational, with significant uncertainty, while saying ASML and other critical equipment suppliers are expediting shipments.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - SpaceX and Tesla Form Committees to Explore Potential Merger
Elon Musk said on SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call that both companies have formed special committees to explore a potential merger. Independent directors are reviewing a possible agreement, but the committees have not agreed on terms, Musk cannot participate because of a conflict of interest, and shareholder approval would be required. Reports describe a possible combination of Tesla vehicles, energy and robotics with SpaceX launch, satellite and AI operations, but no deal has been agreed.
BBC Technology · 🔥 0 - Musk sought to buy Intel, TSMC and Micron fabs before pivoting Terafab to partnerships
Elon Musk first tried to buy wafer manufacturing facilities from Intel, TSMC and Micron before building his Terafab chip project, and turned to partnerships after being turned down, according to a Korean media report from The Elec relayed by Wccftech and TechNews. Intel has directly partnered with Terafab and will support it through its Intel 14A manufacturing technology, while TSMC's role remains disputed: Musk said TSMC could at most be a subcontractor, and TSMC CEO C.C. Wei confirmed talks but said TSMC must operate the plants itself for any partnership to work. Terafab has reportedly held discussions with Korean suppliers as well as Lam Research and Applied Materials, plus piping, slurry and cleaning-chemical vendors, and industry observers expect an initial 100,000 wafers per month before 2030 against Musk's eventual goal of one million wafers per month.
Wccftech · 🔥 0 - Korean engineer alleges Tesla pressed Samsung on AI chip pricing and poached talent
IT之家, citing Tweaktown, reported that a Korean semiconductor engineer alleged on X that Tesla sought sensitive manufacturing-process information and audit rights while pressing Samsung to lower prices in their AI chip foundry deal; the engineer also said Tesla's Terafab project poached many workers from Samsung's Taylor, Texas fab. The report said Tesla's AI5 chip is in trial production at the Taylor fab with mass production targeted for 2027, and that neither Tesla nor Samsung has confirmed or denied the allegations. It also noted that Musk recently praised Micron's pricing stance and hinted TSMC could participate in Terafab without taking equity or an operational role.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Samsung Taylor Fab 2 Targets November Start as Fab 1 Expands
Samsung Electronics plans to begin construction of Fab 2 at its Taylor, Texas cluster in November 2026, according to IT之家 AI citing The Austin American-Statesman. ZDNET Korea, as relayed by IT之家 AI, reports that Samsung bought additional equipment for 6,000 wafers per month at Fab 1, which has a design capacity of 20,000 wafers per month and is expected to reach that target in the second half of 2027. The same report says Fab 2 is expected to enter production in 2030, a schedule not confirmed in the earlier report.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - TSMC posts sixth straight record profit on AI demand, guides Q4 higher
TSMC reported third-quarter 2026 net profit of NT$763.1bn, up about 69% from a year earlier, on revenue of NT$1.49tn, up roughly 51% — both above estimates and a sixth consecutive quarterly profit record. The company guided fourth-quarter revenue to $52.3bn–$54.3bn and raised its 2026 dollar revenue growth outlook to about 44%; high-performance computing was 68% of revenue, smartphones 21%, and 3nm chips 33% of wafer revenue. Chairman C.C. Wei said AI demand keeps rising and the supply-demand gap remains large, with agentic AI driving CPU and networking chip demand, while striking a cautious note on consumer and price-sensitive markets for 2027; TSMC kept 2026 capital spending at $60bn–$64bn and said it will add another 3nm fab in Tainan, with its second Arizona fab starting mass production in Q3 2027, ahead of schedule.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Barclays: Tesla-SpaceX merger could be announced before December shareholder meeting
Barclays analysts led by Dan Levy wrote in a client note that market participants now widely expect Tesla and SpaceX to merge, with an announcement possible before Tesla's annual shareholder meeting, which they expect by December 6, 2026 at the latest; they added the news could slip to late October or early November, leaving less time for shareholder review. The note frames vertical integration and faster AI opportunities across Musk's two companies as the rationale, and sketches an all-stock acquisition of Tesla by SpaceX that would leave Musk with roughly 37% of the combined company's shares and about 56% of voting power. cnBeta stressed this remains a Barclays scenario forecast and that neither company has announced a formal merger plan.
IT之家 AI · 🔥 0 - Musk's Terafab fab plan and Microsoft's local-AI push redraw compute cost lines
Musk has confirmed Tesla and SpaceX will build and operate the Terafab chip manufacturing facility; a SpaceX filing with the US SEC describes a project combining logic chip, memory manufacturing and advanced packaging with a long-term goal of producing hardware equivalent to 1 terawatt of computing power per year, with TSMC potentially renting part of the space and Intel confirming continued involvement though investment and construction details remain undecided. Separately, Microsoft and NVIDIA launched the RTX Spark–equipped Surface Laptop Ultra and detailed Windows hybrid intelligence, which runs some large models and agent tasks locally: its local MAI Code 1.1 Flash has 137B total parameters with roughly 6.8B activated per token in an MoE design, quantized weights of about 53GB, a vendor-reported 75.5GB peak memory at 256K context, and 70.8% on SWE-bench Verified (quantized) versus 72.6% (high precision). The piece argues compute competition is shifting from sheer scale to redrawing the cost boundary for a unit of useful AI capability.
虎嗅 AI · 🔥 0 - Musk denies TSMC will build or run Terafab, says Tesla and SpaceX will own it
Responding on X to a post saying Terafab would most likely be owned and operated by TSMC, Musk wrote on October 7: "No, we will build and run the fab. Let there be ZERO doubt about that." He added that TSMC might sublease part of the Terafab site "if they want, but nothing more than that." Terafab is the giant AI chip manufacturing complex Tesla and SpaceX plan to build in Texas, and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan said the same day that Intel remains part of the project.
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