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Tesla's Terafab chip fab ambitions ignore its lack of semiconductor experience
- polishdude20 7mo agoSurely this Musk project will happen in the time he says it will.
- AlotOfReading 7mo agoReading the Musk interview from Jan where the cheeseburger quote comes from, his brilliant idea seems to be this: They just maintain wafer isolation the entire time What are the chances he's never heard of a FOUP?
- hyperhello 7mo ago[dead]
- paxys 7mo agoPeople writing the article ignore that Tesla's goal isn't to produce a chip but to take the company's stock through another pump cycle. When investors start to ask questions they will just hype something else.
- DivingForGold 7mo agoEh, if you consume enough ketamine, anything is possible...
- RaftPeople 7mo ago> they will just hype something else "Tesla Cold Fusion (TM) will be powering all of our vehicles by 2031."
- thejazzman 7mo agoif you’ve ever read Electrek, you’d know their articles primary purpose is raising awareness that Tesla is full of shit
- erelong 7mo agoThey probably figure it's worth a try
- CamperBob2 7mo agoIt's not. As one of the comments in the article points out, Musk's successes have all come from neglected, underfunded markets (Tesla) or from blowing past lazy incumbents (PayPal, SpaceX). Semiconductor fabs are the polar opposite. The hungriest, smartest, and wealthiest interests on the planet are already highly incentivized to produce chips in their own home markets (US, China, Taiwan.) Someone who has no idea what he's doing can beat GM, ULA, or a bunch of dumbass bankers, in many cases on competitive grounds they never cared to defend in the first place, but 2 nm fabs? Yeah, right. Then there's the fact that Musk has gone out of his way to repel top talent rather than to attract it. He'll have to pay much more for much less. Another ingredient in a surefire recipe for failure in the semiconductor business.
- osnium123 7mo agoThe semiconductor industry is ripe for disruption with another competing logic technology that does not require such complicated manufacturing technology. However, I agree that it’s difficult for an outsider to try to compete with TSMC on making a compelling 2 nm node.