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Jim Keller

Jim Keller

Former head of Tesla's custom chip effort

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Tesla bets $20 billion on building its own chip factory from scratch

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No longer at Tesla; currently CEO of Tenstorrent

Every company designing custom artificial intelligence chips today (Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft) pays someone else to manufacture them. Tesla just announced it will build and operate its own semiconductor fabrication plant, a $20 billion facility called TeraFab targeting the 2-nanometer process node, the most advanced manufacturing technology in existence. No company without decades of chipmaking experience has ever attempted this.

Updated May 30