Elon Musk announced that SpaceX and Tesla plan to build two advanced chip manufacturing plants in Austin, Texas. The project aims to provide the companies with their own chips for transportation, robots, and space technologies. Reuters reports this, writes UNN.<\/p>\n
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According to Musk, the complex, named Terafab, will consist of two separate factories. Each of them will produce one type of chip.<\/p>\n
The first factory will serve the needs of Tesla \u2013 for electric vehicles and Optimus humanoid robots. The second will focus on creating chips for artificial intelligence data centers and satellites.<\/p>\n
Terafab will technically consist of two factories, each producing only one chip design<\/p>\n
\u2013 Musk noted.Reasons for the project and ambitions<\/p>\n
Musk emphasized that the demand for chips is growing rapidly and already exceeds the capabilities of global production.<\/p>\n
We either build Terafab, or we don’t have chips<\/p>\n
\u2013 he stated during the presentation.<\/p>\n
According to his estimates, the new complex will be able to produce up to one terawatt of computing power per year, which exceeds current production figures in the United States.<\/p>\n