Elon Musk to start building Terafab project this week Leave a comment

“We make a little fab and see what happens – make our mistakes at a small scale – and then we make a big one,” mentioned Musk on the weekend.

By an enormous one he means a million wafers a month and he desires to get there by 2030.

By comparability TSMC’s complete capability was 1.3 million 12-inch equal wpm  final yr and is anticipated to be 1.5 million wpm this yr.

The value for what Musk calks his Terafab is $20-25 billion. Tesla presently has $44 billion in money.

At Tesla’s final AGM, Musk mentioned the Terafab wwas crucial as a result of: “I can’t see any other way to get to the volume of chips that we’re looking for.”

Musk already has a fab cope with Samsung and has talked  a couple of attainable manufacturing hook-up with Intel.