No, 2024. Starting by missing the deadline so you get desensitized.

BlokchainB

I wish Elon had the vision to open-source Terafab’s chip designs—imagine what humanity could build if this tech were freely available. He’s done it before with Tesla’s patents and xAI’s Grok-1, so it’s not impossible.

Tjacten

You can also argue it's in Elon's interest for Tesla's share price to stay depressed for the time being, since there's an increasing chance of a SpaceX and Tesla mega-merger once SpaceX is public.

Anything written by Fred Lambert at Electrek has to be discounted as he has had an axe to grind for years now. This is an epic endeavor that will benefit the US greatly.

SaThomas

The Moloch Imperative 

Has to be built because if not someone else will build it

> millions of Optimus robots

This feels a bit Skynet to me. I'm not at all worried about Elon abusing that many totally obedient, reparable humanoid bodies - his dreams are too grand for that.

I am however worried about the one that will do anything to get control over that.

optimism

Tesla and SpaceX have unveiled “Terafab,” a joint $25 billion chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, that Elon Musk claims will produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually. It would be the largest semiconductor fab ever built — by an absurd margin.

Tesla says it is targeting 2-nanometer process technology — the most advanced node currently entering commercial production. TSMC is only now beginning to ramp its own 2nm output, and it has spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars building that capability.

The production targets are staggering. Terafab is designed for an initial output of 100,000 wafer starts per month, with ambitions to scale to 1 million wafer starts per month at full capacity. For context, that full-scale target would represent roughly 70% of TSMC’s entire current global output — from a single facility operated by companies that have never fabricated a chip.

Musk said the facility would produce between 100 and 200 billion custom AI and memory chips per year, powering Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” software, the Cybercab robotaxi program, and the Optimus humanoid robot line. He also said millions of Optimus robots would help build and operate the facility.

Musk said 80% of Terafab’s compute output would be directed toward space-based orbital AI satellites, with only 20% for ground-based applications.

The linked article claims this is an effort to move the stock, which may be not entirely a coincidence, but the vision is plausible, coherent, and coming from Elon, fractionally credible.*

*His timetables are almost always wrong, but no one cares as much as do-nothings want, because at least he's trying to do hard shit asap.

science

tech

Construction_and_Engineering

Stacker_Stocks

> Tesla and SpaceX have unveiled “Terafab,” a joint $25 billion chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, that Elon Musk claims will produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually. It would be the largest semiconductor fab ever built — by an absurd margin.

> Tesla says it is targeting 2-nanometer process technology — the most advanced node currently entering commercial production. TSMC is only now beginning to ramp its own 2nm output, and it has spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars building that capability.
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> The production targets are staggering. Terafab is designed for an initial output of 100,000 wafer starts per month, with ambitions to scale to 1 million wafer starts per month at full capacity. For context, that full-scale target would represent roughly 70% of TSMC’s entire current global output — from a single facility operated by companies that have never fabricated a chip.
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> Musk said the facility would produce between 100 and 200 billion custom AI and memory chips per year, powering Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” software, the Cybercab robotaxi program, and the Optimus humanoid robot line. He also said millions of Optimus robots would help build and operate the facility.

> Musk said 80% of Terafab’s compute output would be directed toward space-based orbital AI satellites, with only 20% for ground-based applications.

The linked article claims this is an effort to move the stock, which may be not entirely a coincidence, but the vision is plausible, coherent, and coming from Elon, fractionally credible.* 

*His timetables are almost always wrong, but no one cares as much as do-nothings want, because at least he's trying to do hard shit asap.