Musk says Terafab plans to achieve mass production of chips in the third quarter of 2028
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Musk says Terafab plans to mass-produce chips in the third quarter of 2028, but acknowledges that the timeline is very aggressive and uncertain.
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Musk: Terafab plans to 2028 achieve mass production of chips in
PANews October 21 reports that Terafab, a chip manufacturing joint venture established by SpaceX and Tesla, plans to achieve mass production in the third quarter of 2028, Elon Musk said Tuesday during a SpaceX conference call. “I have built a large margin of error into this schedule because we are not yet sure whether we can actually achieve this goal,” Musk said of the timeline. The timeline is a rough plan for the project, which aims to provide artificial intelligence and robotics with 1 terawatts of computing capacity annually; Musk himself called the schedule “very aggressive.” In the United States, building a leading-edge logic chip factory typically takes 3 years or longer. Musk said that, under internal planning, Terafab aims to, around May or June next year, enable the first chip using static random-access memory circuits at the Terafab R&D center in Austin...
PANews October 21 reports that Elon Musk discussed Terafab’s mass production plan during a SpaceX conference call.
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The report states that Terafab is a chip manufacturing joint venture established by SpaceX and Tesla.
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Terafab plans to achieve mass production in the third quarter of 2028.
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Musk said he had built a large margin of error into the timeline because it remains uncertain whether the goal can actually be achieved.
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The project aims to provide artificial intelligence and robotics with 1 terawatts of computing capacity annually.
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Musk called the schedule “very aggressive.”
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The report notes that building a leading-edge logic chip factory in the United States typically takes 3 years or longer.
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Musk said that the internal plan aims to, around May or June next year, advance the first chip using static random-access memory circuits at the Terafab R&D center in Austin, but the original text is truncated at this point.
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Terafab hopes to manufacture its own chips for artificial intelligence and robotics. 2028 Mass production in the third quarter of the year is only the current rough plan. Musk himself also emphasized that the goal is aggressive and has a large margin of error, so it should not be understood as a confirmed production start date.
Why it matters to readers
If the plan is implemented, Terafab will provide computing capacity for artificial intelligence and robotics; however, building a leading-edge logic chip factory takes considerable time, and whether the timeline can be met remains key.
Beginners should distinguish between “planned mass production” and “already in mass production.” The current information reflects a long-term goal and internal planning, rather than existing capacity or a certain outcome.
Risks and unknowns
The body of the report is truncated, so the full wording of the target for the first chip at the R&D center cannot be confirmed.
Musk explicitly stated that it cannot be determined whether the mass production target for the third quarter of 2028 can be achieved.
Providing 1 terawatts of computing capacity annually is the project’s target and has not yet been achieved.
The evidence consists only of PANews’ account; no original conference-call transcript or official project documentation has been provided.
Which specific year “next year” in the report refers to 1 cannot be confirmed from the text alone.
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