SpaceX files $55B Terafab chip facility plan in Texas

SpaceX filed regulatory plans for Terafab, a $55B semiconductor fabrication facility in Texas, signaling aggressive vertical integration into chip manufacturing. No process node or target transistor density has been disclosed yet. If realized, this positions SpaceX to control silicon supply chains for Starlink, Starship avionics, and AI inference workloads. This mirrors TSMC and Intel Foundry scale ambitions, but from an aerospace-first operator.