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Elon Musk's massive Terafab chip-making facility starts to take shape — 100 million square feet of manufacturing space and $16.8B initial capital investment
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The massive semiconductor manufacturing complex will be built in Grimes County, Texas, at a location that belongs to SpaceX.
The 100 million square feet (9.3 million square meters) figure immediately stands out because it is far beyond anything ever announced for a semiconductor manufacturing facility.
For example, the total area of Samsung's Pyeongtaek campus is approximately 2.89 million square meters, or 31.1 million square feet.
A single Samsung fab occupies about 120,000 square meters, or 1.29 million square feet.
However, the key wording is important: '100 million square feet of manufacturing space' does not mean 100 million square feet of cleanroom space.