Musk’s TeraFab Seeks Japanese Suppliers for Texas Chip Plants

Elon Musk’s TeraFab project is seeking Japanese semiconductor equipment and materials suppliers as it advances plans for Texas chip plants, including a full-scale facility designed to produce about 1 million wafers a month.

The procurement team has approached Japanese companies with plans for orders. A supplier executive described requests for nonstandard factory specifications, long-term engineering support at the site and custom equipment development.

TeraFab targets pilot production in Texas in 2027, followed by a full-scale plant in 2032. The project plans to combine memory and logic chip production at the larger facility, with 70% of capacity allocated to memory and 30% to logic.

Intel technology is under discussion for logic production, including Intel 2-nanometer and 1.4-nanometer-class processes. Those details have not been finalized. A Taiwanese company may provide memory technology.

The potential Taiwanese partner has not been identified, and details of any cooperation have not been disclosed.

The Japanese supplier search follows the project’s earlier visits to about 10 South Korean company booths at SEMICON West 2026.