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Elon Musk just revealed that Tesla is building a research chip fab at Gigafactory Texas that could reduce semiconductor development cycles from one year to just one month That's a potential 12 TIMES increase in the speed of chip development Tesla is building two semiconductor facilities in Texas with distinct purposes: • Giga Texas, Austin — A research fab for experimenting with new chip designs, fabrication techniques and manufacturing processes • Terafab, Grimes County — A massive production facility where successful breakthroughs will be scaled into high-volume chip manufacturing The research fab aims to bring the entire chip development process under one roof: • Logic fabrication • Memory fabrication • Lithography • Advanced packaging • Chip testing Instead of relying on lengthy development cycles spread across multiple facilities, Tesla is working toward designing, manufacturing and testing complete chips in approximately ONE MONTH That means potentially 12 development cycles in the time it traditionally takes to complete one Tesla is building the ability to develop its own chips, manufacture them and continuously improve them at a pace the semiconductor industry has rarely seen

Falcon 9’s first stage lands on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship

Elon called catching rockets with giant chopstick arms “bananas” years before SpaceX pulled it off. “We’re talking about catching the largest flying object ever made on a giant tower with chopstick arms. It’s like Karate Kid with the fly, but much bigger.” Elon Musk, Lex Fridman Podcast #252, December 2021.

SpaceX’s Arizona data center, per a county supervisor: “We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20%” Frank Antenori, whose district includes the site, brought up the county’s tax math during a live Q&A: “Here’s just something to just chew on. Arizona has an expenditure limit requirement that is placed on counties. If we exceed that expenditure, we have to rebate back to the taxpayers a certain amount.” “So, if we’re receiving revenue in from SpaceX, by law, we have to offset that to the taxpayers. We have the potential to reduce, based on the projected revenue they’re creating, as much as 20%.” “Let me just say it again. We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20% to offset for the revenue here, because we can’t spend all that money. So, we have to give that money back to the taxpayers. The law says we have to.” “So, you could see a potential significant impact to local property taxes. What that is, I don’t know. We’re going to have to do the math on it. But the law, if we have this large increase in property tax revenue, we have to balance those rates. So that will reduce dramatically the property tax burden of every resident in the county.” “The construction sales tax, which also is the TPT, the transaction privilege tax, the retail tax, and the jail excise tax. So that will be part of the construction tax. We could literally use that money to pay the jail off in 2 to 3 years, as opposed to the 13 to 20 years.” “So this could be a revenue to eliminate the half-cent sales tax in 2 to 3 years. We can get rid of that half-cent sales tax.”

Neuralink gave Noland Arbaugh something to wake up for. “I didn’t have anything to wake up for in the morning, and this has changed that for me.” @elonmusk says he’s fairly confident Neuralink could restore full-body functionality at some point in the future—not a capability achieved today.

And ship will be caught by Mechazilla too. As with booster, no landing legs. Those are only needed for moon & Mars until there is local infrastructure.

Whenever people say the U.S. has a lot of starvation, it's like they're saying they don't realize the poor have obesity issues these days.

Starship is preparing for catch Flight 15 is targeting to launch as early as Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval → spacex.com/launches/starship…