# Musk Says Terafab Aims for Third-Quarter 2028 Mass Production

By Simon Yoon

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Published: 2026-10-21T11:10:20.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-21T11:10:20.000Z
Section: Technology

> The Tesla and SpaceX chip venture aims to run a working test chip at its Austin research center in May or June 2027.

Elon Musk said Terafab, the chip venture established by Tesla and SpaceX, is targeting mass production in the third quarter of 2028, an aggressive timetable for a U.S. project intended to serve artificial intelligence and robotics.

Musk discussed the target on a SpaceX conference call Tuesday, Oct. 20, and cautioned that the schedule has a wide margin of error. He said he was not yet sure the venture could meet it.

Terafab’s broader goal is to make enough chips each year to support 1 terawatt of computing power for artificial intelligence and robotics. The 2028 date is a target for starting mass production, rather than a completed manufacturing milestone.

Building an advanced logic-chip factory in the United States typically takes more than three years, underscoring the pace of the proposed schedule.

The next planned milestone is a working test chip using static random-access memory (SRAM) circuits at Terafab’s Austin research and development center around May or June 2027. Musk described that date as an internal target.