A billionaire just yanked an Intel lifer over to his new chip mega-fab. Gary Jiang, an Intel veteran, jumped over to Tesla's Terafab project as its director, landing in Austin, Texas, after almost 18 years at Intel. Musk pegs the build at roughly $20 billion, with production splitting across California and Texas.
Jiang's resume checks out for this kind of gig. He last managed a factory at Intel's Arizona sites, prepping them for 18A chip production, and earlier he ran high-volume output on the 22-nanometer and 14-nanometer nodes.
The price tag balloons past that, honestly. In a Grimes County hearing notice, SpaceX described a multi-phase, vertically integrated semiconductor and computing fab, pegging early phases near $55 billion and the whole thing at $119 billion.
Intel isn't just Jiang's old shop; it's Tesla and SpaceX's Terafab partner through its 14A tech, making his hire pretty clutch for smooth coordination.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan sounds hyped, saying on a podcast that he and Musk both think fabrication hasn't kept pace with AI demand, and that the two would learn plenty together.
Jiang's resume checks out for this kind of gig. He last managed a factory at Intel's Arizona sites, prepping them for 18A chip production, and earlier he ran high-volume output on the 22-nanometer and 14-nanometer nodes.
The price tag balloons past that, honestly. In a Grimes County hearing notice, SpaceX described a multi-phase, vertically integrated semiconductor and computing fab, pegging early phases near $55 billion and the whole thing at $119 billion.
Intel isn't just Jiang's old shop; it's Tesla and SpaceX's Terafab partner through its 14A tech, making his hire pretty clutch for smooth coordination.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan sounds hyped, saying on a podcast that he and Musk both think fabrication hasn't kept pace with AI demand, and that the two would learn plenty together.
