Elon Musk's Terafab & The Silicon Empire
TerraFab: Tesla’s $119B semiconductor foundry in Texas is a masterclass in vertical integration.
By owning 2nm AI silicon production (in JV with SpaceX, xAI & Intel), Tesla is securing AI5 (40x compute, 9x memory) for FSD/Robotics while building toward 200GW Earth + 1TW orbital compute capacity.
In an era of severe chip scarcity, control over the physical hardware is becoming the ultimate competitive advantage.
The future belongs to those who control the silicon, not just the software.