Intel to Join SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla’s Terafab Project in Texas

Intel Corp. will join Elon Musk’s massive chip-building effort in Austin, Texas, the companies announced April 7. The Silicon Valley chip manufacturer will help Musk’s Terafab project to “help refactor silicon fab technology,” Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced on X in a surprise statement. “Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 [terawatt per year] of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics,” Tan posted on X. SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla expect to require more than 1 terawatt (TW), or 1 trillion watts, of solar power annually, which is the amount the Terafab is designed to produce. That’s about enough energy to power 100,000 average homes for one year....