Elon Musk
@elonmusk on the need to build Tesla TeraFab for chip production:
“And we already know what improvements to make for AI6. So I'm hopeful that we can, within less than a year of AI5 starting production, we can actually transition to the same fab to AI6 and double all of the performance metrics. I'm super hardcore on chips right now, as you may be able to tell.
So this is really key. Now, one of the things I'm trying to figure out is how to make enough chips. So I have a lot of respect for the Tesla partners, TSMC and Samsung, maybe we'll do something with Intel.
But even when we extrapolate the best-case scenario for chip production from our suppliers, it's still not enough. So I think we may have to do a Tesla TeraFab. It's like Giga, but way bigger.
I can't see any other way to get to the volume of chips that we're looking for. So I think we're probably going to have to build a gigantic chip fab.”