Elon Musk's Terafab will reportedly receive its first EUV tool from ASML in mid-2027

Elon Musk's Terafab will get its first EUV lithography tool in the middle of next year, reports Tim Culpan, citing sources with knowledge of the matter. But considering that the shell of the firm's development fab will not be completed until late 2027 and that tools will only begin to be moved in later that year, according to SemiAnalysis, the scanner will sit idle for some time.

Tesla broke ground on its research fab on the north campus of Giga Texas near Austin this past April. SemiAnalysis expects the building to be completed in 15 months and predicts it will take Tesla a further six months to install equipment and production tools, after which it will be able to start processing wafers, or rather experimenting with chip production to get the team prepared for completion of the Terafab volume fab phase 1.

Given how hard it is to get an ASML Twinscan NXE EUV lithography tool these days, storing it …