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Elon Musk just revealed that Tesla is building a research chip fab at Gigafactory Texas that could reduce semiconductor development cycles from one year to just one month That's a potential 12 TIMES increase in the speed of chip development Tesla is building two semiconductor facilities in Texas with distinct purposes: • Giga Texas, Austin — A research fab for experimenting with new chip designs, fabrication techniques and manufacturing processes • Terafab, Grimes County — A massive production facility where successful breakthroughs will be scaled into high-volume chip manufacturing The research fab aims to bring the entire chip development process under one roof: • Logic fabrication • Memory fabrication • Lithography • Advanced packaging • Chip testing Instead of relying on lengthy development cycles spread across multiple facilities, Tesla is working toward designing, manufacturing and testing complete chips in approximately ONE MONTH That means potentially 12 development cycles in the time it traditionally takes to complete one Tesla is building the ability to develop its own chips, manufacture them and continuously improve them at a pace the semiconductor industry has rarely seen