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TSMC is exploring a role in Terafab, Elon's Texas chip project. Elon's reply was "Just discussions, but something may come of it." Jeff Lutz 🔋 calls it the battery playbook again. Build at a scale nobody else will, and suppliers can't afford to sit out. Intel's already in, Samsung's... show more

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Elon Muskvor 19 Stunden

@thejefflutz No, we will build and run the fab. Let there be ZERO doubt about that. Maybe TSMC subleases part of the Terafab if they want, but nothing more than that.

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Amyvor 23 Stunden

@thejefflutz Great discussion and I agree with Jeff’s analysis.

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Relax_to_Richvor 23 Stunden

@thejefflutz Scale brings negotiating leverage with suppliers. Fab construction takes years with many unknowns, talks don’t equal finished deals.

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Jamievor 1 Tag

I could be wrong, but I really don't recall a product where Musk gives away control of a critical asset to another company. EVs, FSD, energy, satellites, datacenters, space launch....horizontal and vertical supply chains have always been seen as critical to success for his companies. TSMC owning and running THE fab that makes SpaceXAI and Tesla dependent on someone else in my view would be a no go. Of course, fabs aren't actually rocket science😎

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Vikram Kumarvor 1 Tag

@thejefflutz You and @Nainahf are my go-to for chip news, and the battery playbook framing fits here.

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DogeDesigner

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X Freeze

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ELON MUSK: All the fabs on Earth combined are only 2% of what Terafab needs. “If you add up all the fabs on Earth combined, they’re only about 2% of what we need for the Terafab project. We’re very grateful to Samsung, TSMC and others. We would like them to expand as quickly as they can, and we will buy all of their chips. There’s a maximum rate at which they’re comfortable expanding, but that rate is much less than we would like. So we’re going to build Terafab. The key missing ingredient is a terawatt of compute. That’s why we are building Terafab.”

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