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Elon Musk's Terafab chip factory in Texas could cost up to $119 billion, filing shows

SpaceX's Terafab fab project in Texas faces ballooning capex: a regulatory filing indicates construction and equipment costs could reach $119 billion, making it one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing investments ever announced. This eclipses TSMC and Samsung's recent US facility commitments and signals an industry arms race for domestic advanced node capacity.

For CTOs and infrastructure teams, this underscores the criticality of securing domestic chip supply and the scale of capex required to escape Asia-dependent semiconductor chains. Terafab's timeline and yield roadmap remain undisclosed; watch for production cadence announcements.

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