Elon Musk’s Texas-based Terafab AI chip production project has a new partner in one of the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturers. Intel said on Tuesday that it is signing on to help design and build the chip-producing hardware for the $25 billion project backed by Musk’s SpaceX, xAI and Tesla.
The semiconductor technology that Terafab is slated to mass-produce is necessary for many of the billionaire’s promised products, including self-driving cars, humanoid robots and sprawling AI data centers.
Building chip fabrication plants, or fabs, is no simple task. US companies have for years relied on the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which produces 90% of advanced computer chips globally, to actually create the chips that power our electronics.
But as the AI industry calls for more and more computing power, US companies are scrambling for control over chip production. Musk’s Terafab facility is far from the only domestic investment in AI
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