manufacturing - Hard-On-Tech

Trump administration targets $4 trillion Pax Silica investment fund for semiconductors — the US will start with a $250 million investment for global consortium

By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 26, 2026 | Hardware

The Hot Take: US domestic job market appears to be expanding in tech.

The Trump administration is targeting $4 trillion Pax Silica investment for semiconductors. It’s not currently clear how the Trump administration arrived at the $4 trillion figure, or how it will ultimately materialize.

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Elon Musk wants to build 50 times more chips than the world currently produces, using 'new physics'

By ckasprzak | TkOut | March 23, 2026 | Hardware

The Hot Take: Interesting new physics? He re-writing the laws of physics?

Like his promise to get a million robocabs on the road, this doesn't add up Elon Musk has put Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI in harness to build a chip fabrication outfit called "Terafab" capable of producing a terawatt's worth of computing power each year, then send most of it into space.…

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