{"id":241725,"date":"2026-04-09T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241725\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T08:56:12","slug":"intel-announces-plans-to-join-elon-musks-terafab-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241725\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel announces plans to join Elon Musk&#8217;s Terafab project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Semiconductor manufacturing company Intel announced on Tuesday that it will help with Elon Musk\u2019s $20 billion chip-manufacturing facility project.<\/p>\n<p>The company posted the news on X, a social media platform owned by Musk, saying that it would join the Terafab project\u2014a joint venture between Musk\u2019s companies Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. In the post, Intel said it will \u201chelp refactor silicon fab technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab\u2019s aim to produce 1 TW\/year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Intel is proud to join the Terafab project with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SpaceX<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@xAI<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tesla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Tesla<\/a> to help refactor silicon fab technology.<\/p>\n<p>Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab\u2019s aim to produce 1 TW\/year of compute to power\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2vUmXn0YhH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2vUmXn0YhH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Intel (@intel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intel\/status\/2041501301318766866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name Terafab comes from the project\u2019s goal of producing one terawatt of computing annually.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/south-texas-el-paso\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/musk-announces-plans-for--20b-chip-manufacturing-facility\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Musk announced the project last month<\/a> in Austin, which will include a small advanced technology fabrication plant to be built in Austin near the Tesla Gigafactory. The location of the full Terafab facility is not known at this time, but Musk has said it would need to be approxiamately 1000 million square feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Semiconductor manufacturing company Intel announced on Tuesday that it will help with Elon Musk\u2019s $20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,910,102,1974,223,82,3621,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-241725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-katharine-finnerty","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}