TeraFab files
Silicon is the other half of the stack
TeraFab is not a side factory. It is the compute loop that has to close with Starship, ice, and power — radiation-hard chips in orbit, edge silicon for the machines that build the city, wafers that match the catcher tower.
The loop
Published loads
- Chip split
- 80% D3 / 20% AI5
- D3 duty
- Radiation-hard orbital servers
- AI5/AI6 duty
- 50× edge efficiency for Optimus
- 100 GW / yr
- 1,000,000 t hardware to orbit
- Wafer starts
- 1M / month at Grimes County
- Rule
- Land the booster or there is no server
The files
Papers on this desk
Two notes hold the TeraFab argument. The backbone is why a terawatt fab exists. The unified machine is why the tower, the wafer, and the robot are one loop.
5 min · 2026-08-18
One Unified Physical Machine
If you cannot land the booster, you cannot launch the server. If you cannot package the chip, you cannot power the robot.
6 min · 2026-05-22
TeraFab Is the Silicon Backbone
Stainless steel makes return impossible until you close the ISRU and compute loop. A terawatt fab is not a chip factory. It is the bridge off Earth’s gravity well.
The same numbers sit in the dossier, next to ice and watts.