Intel has been struggling in recent years, but it still has a number of fabrication plants around the world and decades of experience. Musk will have to license that manufacturing know-how. According to Moorhead, that means Intel will likely own the intellectual property produced at the Terafab. Musk would be able to create his own “recipe” for chip manufacturing, but until his companies are in a place to buy up their own chip-making equipment—such as advanced lithography machines—he will still be licensing a manufacturing process or special-process design kit from another foundry.
5 Burning Questions About Elon Musk’s Terafab Chip Partnership with Intel… Musk would be able to create his own “recipe” for chip manufacturing, but until his companies are in a place to buy up their own chip-making equipment—such as advanced lithography machines—he will still be licensing a manufacturing process or special-process design kit from another foundry. …
… The chip is being fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, the world’s leading semiconductor foundry, and is being built using TSMC’s 3nm process. …