{"id":587553,"date":"2026-04-16T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587553\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T10:36:13","slug":"musks-staff-reaches-out-to-suppliers-for-terafab-project-bloomberg-news-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587553\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk&#8217;s staff reaches out to suppliers for Terafab project, Bloomberg News reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Elon Musk&#8217;s staff have reached out to chip industry suppliers for his Terafab \u200cAI chip complex project with SpaceX and \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/TSLA\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tesla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Tesla&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a>, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The team has approached companies including \u200bApplied Materials, Tokyo Electron and Lam Research, and has asked chip manufacturing partner Samsung Electronics Co for support, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Staff \u200chave sought price quotes \u2060and delivery times for an array of chipmaking gear, Bloomberg said, adding that in \u2060the past few weeks, they\u2019ve contacted makers of photomasks, substrates, etchers, depositors, cleaning devices, testers and other tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200bgoal is \u200bto begin silicon manufacturing \u200bby 2029 and then \u200cscale up, Bloomberg added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Musk&#8217;s representatives have asked for speedy price estimates while providing minimal information about the products, and Musk wants to move at &#8220;light speed,&#8221; according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Reuters could not immediately verify the report. \u200cTesla, SpaceX, Applied Materials, Tokyo \u200bElectron, Lam Research and Samsung Electronics \u200bdid not immediately \u200brespond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Musk launched Terafab \u200cin March, and Intel last week \u200bsaid it \u200bwould join the project to make processors powering the tech billionaire&#8217;s robotics and data center ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The \u200bproject will be \u200cbuilt on the Tesla campus in eastern Travis \u200bCounty, Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Chandni Shah in \u200bBengaluru; Editing by Sonia Cheema)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Elon Musk&#8217;s staff have reached out to chip industry suppliers for his Terafab \u200cAI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[47676,13661,28,11,90667,49643,1513,1019,47410],"class_list":{"0":"post-587553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-applied-materials","9":"tag-bloomberg-news","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-lam-research","13":"tag-samsung-electronics","14":"tag-spacex","15":"tag-tesla","16":"tag-tokyo-electron"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}