By Wen-Yee Lee<\/p>\n
TAIPEI, April 10 (Reuters) – SpaceX has begun installing equipment at its advanced chip packaging facility \u200cin Bastrop, Texas, as the satellite and rocket \u200ccompany aims to begin production there by the end of this year, \u200btwo sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.<\/p>\n
One of the sources said the timeline had seen some delays, but the company was still targeting a start of production before the \u200cyear-end.<\/p>\n
The facility will \u2060package radio frequency (RF) chips used in products related to SpaceX’s satellite-based internet system Starlink, the \u2060sources said, declining to be named as the information is not public.<\/p>\n
The RF chips to be packaged in Bastrop are \u200bcurrently packaged \u200bby external providers, but SpaceX \u200bplans to bring at \u200cleast part of the packaging process in-house once the facility is ready, according to one of the sources and a third source.<\/p>\n
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
In 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that over \u200cthe next three years, SpaceX’s \u200bBastrop facility would expand by 1 \u200bmillion square feet to \u200bproduce Starlink kits and related components, including \u200cadvanced packaged silicon products. The \u200bexpansion is expected \u200bto cost more than $280 million, Abbott said.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk has been building up the space company’s semiconductor capabilities \u200band unveiled a \u200cplan last month to build advanced chip factories at \u200ba sprawling facility in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Wen-Yee \u200bLee; Editing by Janane Venkatraman)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI, April 10 (Reuters) – SpaceX has begun installing equipment at its advanced chip packaging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13491,2223,93018,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-243308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-bastrop","9":"tag-spacex","10":"tag-start-of-production","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243308","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=243308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}