Musk says yes to building own chip fab equipment, citing industry-wide tool homogeneity
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-11
When directly asked whether Terafab would build its own equipment, Elon Musk answered yes, adding that they will modify existing machines or build their own depending on what becomes the production bottleneck—consistent with his critique that today's fabs all run the same off-the-shelf ASLM and third-party tools, leaving no manufacturing advantage.
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