TSMC is open to working on Musk’s Terafab but says it must run the fab
TSMC is willing to work with Elon Musk’s Terafab chip project, but any fab involved would have to be run by TSMC, chairman and chief executive C.C. Wei said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday. He added that the two sides have not yet reached an agreement.
Bloomberg reported the remarks shortly after the call. A week earlier, Musk had ruled out any operating role for the Taiwanese chipmaker in a post on X, as Bloomberg also reported on 7 October.
Terafab is a joint chipmaking effort by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. Its first phase, a $16.8bn fab in Grimes County, Texas, broke ground in August and is meant to supply chips for Musk’s cars, robots, and data centres.
During the call, JPMorgan analyst Gokul Hariharan asked about a possible new cluster of TSMC fabs in Texas and any talks with Tesla or SpaceX.
In reply, Wei...
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