
David Chip”on”
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@SawyerMerritt @AmineTX I stumbled upon what appears to be the Dallas robotaxi hive, a sea of new Ys with rear camera washers and same range of TX plates I’ve seen driving on the roads and simulating pickup/dropoff



GOOD NEWS 🚖 Tesla Robotaxi fleet size has exceeded 500 vehicles for the first time 🔥


No, that’s just the little advanced technology fab, where we will be iterating on chip designs. We couldn’t possibly fit the Terafab on the GigaTexas campus. It will be far bigger than everything else combined there. Several locations for Terafab are under consideration. It needs thousands of acres and over 10GW of power at full scale.

Is $TSLA about to have its $NVDA moment ?

A Tesla and SpaceX merger feels inevitable at this point.

@WallStreetApes I think this would be a huge boost for RoboTaxi. What do you think @CernBasher @JOBhakdi @RandyWKirk1 @FutureAZA



Given that several companies make advanced chips, but no companies have ever made fully reusable rockets or achieved SpaceX scale, I think Starship is harder, but we shall see. Terafab will technically be two fabs, each making only one chip design. This greatly simplifies process flow and allows more linear, adjacent movement of the FOUP. A super high production rate allows us to test very quickly what steps can be deleted, simplified or sped up, even after the design is fixed. Current fabs are extremely conservative, operating on rigid historical heuristics, which are mostly, but not all, correct. Anything that is a rate limiter at the machine level means that machine will be redesigned, unless already at limit of physics. Having new iterations of a chip design be produced every day in the research fab (with <7 day lag) means being able to try out many high risk, high return ideas. Etc In any event, there is no other way to reach extreme scale, so either we make Terafab or we will be stuck at the ~20% chip/memory output growth per year of the current industry.





















