On April 7, Intel officially joined Elon Musk’s TeraFab project. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan met with Musk, and Musk shared the news on X, saying he looks forward to deep collaboration. Intel will bring its design, manufacturing, and packaging expertise to reshape silicon logic, memory, and packaging for TeraFab.

The goal: 1 terawatt of compute capacity per year – equal to 100 top-tier AI data centers combined. Tesla quickly reposted, calling it an epic chipmaking project. Intel stock jumped 5% on the news.

TeraFab was first announced by Musk on March 21. Located in Austin, Texas, it is the world’s first full-flow 2nm mega-fab integrating design, manufacturing, test, and packaging. It will serve Tesla’s autonomous driving, humanoid robots, SpaceX’s space data centers, and xAI’s large models. With Intel onboard, advanced process mass production gets a hard guarantee.

ICgoodFind :Intel + Musk = 2nm TeraFab in Austin. AI compute manufacturing just took a giant leap.