Musk courts chip engineers as Terafab targets 10 chip designs a year
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-11
Musk posted a recruiting call for world-class chip design and production engineers to join SpaceX or Tesla, pitching the chance to "iterate on designs and customize production machines at lightning speed."
The quoted analysis says Musk wants Terafab to do 10 chip designs a year, versus the industry norm of roughly one significant design every two years from design start to volume fabrication. Musk's own framing: technological progress equals number of iterations times progress per iteration, so the question is how many chip designs you can do, make and test in a year — he wants about 10, not one every two years.
More from Companies & People
- pmitu: distribution is now the hardest feature to build — alexmacgregor__ · 2026-10-11
- High schooler with 3 NeurIPS papers applies for AI research internship, remote only — DominiqueCAPaul · 2026-10-11
- Mathematicians begin 21-day reading of OpenAI's proofs, starting with claimed Kuznetsov conjecture counterexamples — burny_tech · 2026-10-11
- Nat Lambert to speak at Fireworks AI Forge in SF on why open models win — sophiamyang · 2026-10-11
- micro1 Expands m1 Research & Engineering Team to Boost Intelligence Improvement Predictability — Exp_Mark · 2026-10-11
- Why most companies shouldn't be using AI agents yet: hype wastes millions daily — DavidLinthicum · 2026-10-11