Intel shares fell 4% after Elon Musk confirmed on October 3 that Terafab is in early talks with TSMC on chipmaking in Texas. There is no agreement yet, so the drop prices the chance that Intel ends up sharing Terafab's work with a second foundry.
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Lip-Bu Tan told a Splunk keynote in Denver that relying on one Taiwan-based company for 95% of AI chip production is very risky. The one 14A commitment he can point to, Terafab, ships its first product in mid-2028.
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Intel closed at $104.47, roughly 92 times the $1.14 it is expected to earn this year. Of the three legs holding that price up, only the data centre line is already in the accounts. October's CPU increase is still a supply chain report.
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Starbase Louisiana turns Starship scaling into a fixed-capex problem. At 30 flights a day the pads cost about $913,000 a launch to amortize; at 1,000 flights a year they cost $10 million.
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Project Crystal Sun lands on top of $16.8 billion for Terafab. The incentive requested is a 10-year property tax abatement, and the filing names an unspecified alternative site outside Texas.
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