Terafab, a chip manufacturing joint venture between SpaceX and Tesla, has informed equipment suppliers of its goal to reach a production capacity of 1 million wafers per month by 2032. The venture is backed by technological support from industry giant Intel.
The $16.8 billion semiconductor complex in Grimes County, Texas, will span 100 million square feet. It aims to house mask generation, lithography, advanced chiplet packaging, and testing. Logic chips will use Intel's 14A process for 300,000 monthly wafers.
With 700,000 wafers for memory, Terafab's scale rivals Samsung's DRAM capacity. Elon Musk, who called TSMC a subcontractor, ruled out their ownership in the project. The site aims to produce 1 terawatt of AI compute annually to secure the supply chain.