{"id":1041281,"date":"2026-10-06T11:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041281"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T05:39:21","slug":"elon-musk-confirms-talks-with-tsmc-for-terafab-chipmaking-collaboration-says-just-discussions-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/elon-musk-confirms-talks-with-tsmc-for-terafab-chipmaking-collaboration-says-just-discussions-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk confirms talks with TSMC for Terafab chipmaking collaboration, says just discussions, but \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has confirmed that his companies are in active discussions with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) regarding a potential partnership for his Terafab semiconductor manufacturing. The confirmation comes as a report claimed that the talks explore establishing a dedicated chip manufacturing plant focused entirely on supplying Musk\u2019s companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI.<\/p>\n<p>Musk acknowledged the engagement in a brief post on X (formerly Twitter), however, he downplayed anything concrete at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has confirmed that his companies are in active discussions with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) regarding a potential partnership for his Terafab semiconductor manufacturing. The confirmation comes as a report claimed that the talks explore establishing a dedicated chip manufacturing plant focused entirely on supplying Musk\u2019s companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI. Musk acknowledged the engagement in a brief post on X (formerly Twitter), however, he downplayed anything concrete at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041282,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041281\/revisions\/1041282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}