Musk’s chip-making vision with Intel is a distant prospect
- Apr 26
- 1 min read
WALL STREET JOURNAL — Tesla would first build a chip-research facility with capacity to produce “a few thousand wafers” monthly, spending about $3 billion, he said—chump change in the chip-manufacturing world. The intent was “to try out ideas,” he said.
Competitors are hardly shaking. Asked about Terafab last week, TSMC Chief Executive C.C. Wei effectively dismissed Musk’s timeline without explicitly rejecting the venture altogether. “It takes two to three years to build a new fab, no shortcuts,” he said. “And it takes another one to two years to ramp it up.”
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