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Elon Musk Invites Chip Designers to Join the Terafab Project

If you want to iterate fast with radically new chip designs, join the Terafab project!

Context

Why it matters

It signals that Musk is staffing up Terafab to build new chip designs fast, though the post gave no new technical details or funding.

Musk quoted a post saying Tesla is building a research chip fab at Gigafactory Texas that could cut chip development cycles from a year to a month, and wrote that people who want to iterate fast on radically new chip designs should join the Terafab project. He announced no new chip, technical details or funding.

What to expect next

Watch for hiring details, a timeline for the research fab in Texas and any first chip from Terafab.