Lip-Bu Tan, Intel\u2019s chief executive, at the company\u2019s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, on his first day in the role in March 2025. Credit: Intel Corporation Intel will keep working with Elon Musk on Terafab, his project to make advanced chips in Texas, chief executive Lip-Bu Tan told\u00a0Bloomberg. Tan made the comments before a Tokyo event on Wednesday celebrating 50 years of Intel\u2019s operations in Japan. His comments come after a week of reports that Taiwan\u2019s TSMC, the world\u2019s largest contract chipmaker, could join the project.<\/p>\n
The TSMC talks were first reported on October 2 by\u00a0Culpium, a newsletter run by tech journalist Tim Culpan. Citing unnamed sources, the report said TSMC was exploring ways to help operate Terafab\u2019s planned factories in Texas. Musk replied the next day, posting on X under a screenshot of the report. \u201cJust discussions, but something may come of it,\u201d he wrote. In a\u00a0follow-up piece, Culpium also reported that Intel\u2019s own work on Terafab was not making progress.<\/p>\n
Tan\u2019s remarks to Bloomberg suggest Intel intends to remain involved regardless. Intel signed on in April as Terafab\u2019s\u00a0first named partner, saying it would help design, make, and package chips for the project. Musk had launched Terafab a month earlier as a joint effort of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, which has since merged into SpaceX. Since then, plans for the plant have moved forward.<\/p>\n
In August, SpaceX and Tesla named\u00a0Grimes County, Texas, about an hour from Houston, as the site and committed $16.8bn to a first phase. Musk wants the plant to produce enough chips to power one terawatt of computing power per year. At the same time, TSMC has been weighing a\u00a0new campus in Texas. According to Culpium, Terafab could become the anchor customer for such a factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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