Musk’s Terafab: A $20B Bet to Build Chips and Cut Out TSMC

Elon Musk's Terafab project launches with a $20B commitment to manufacture AI chips domestically at Austin's Seaholm site, challenging TSMC's supply dominance.

Twenty billion dollars. That’s the opening number Musk put on the table at Austin’s defunct Seaholm Power Plant on March 21, 2026. Standing in a century-old industrial shell, he announced Terafab — a joint semiconductor fabrication facility backed by Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, targeting 2-nanometer chips and a terawatt of annual compute output. Read more »