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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 89502, member: 27"]
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.
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