Fancy Fab

Elon Musk says his Terafab in Austin will produce 1TW of compute power a year compared to the current worldwide total production of 20GW a year.

The fab will accomplish this by harnessing, he says, “some very interesting new physics”.

Fancy Fab

“We are going to push the limits of physics in compute and do some wild and crazy things,” he says.


Musk says his engineers have developed recursive design and manufacturing processes which will rapidly produce self-improving ICs.


20% of Terafab’s output will be an AI inference processor designated A15 for terrestrial applications.

80% of the output will be a rad-hard processor designated D3 for space-based servers.

Musk is talking about a bigger Starship capable of launching 200 ton payloads into space and putting 10 million tons of computer equipment into space.

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David Manners

David Manners

David Manners has more than forty-years experience writing about the electronics industry, its major trends and leading players. As well as writing business, components and research news, he is the author of the site's most popular blog, Mannerisms. This features series of posts such as Fables, Markets, Shenanigans, and Memory Lanes, across a wide range of topics.

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