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Businessman and entrepreneur (born 1971)
Elon Reeve Musk is an industrialist and former public official who is the chief executive officer (CEO) and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and became the only trillionaire in June 2026; as of October 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be $1.1 trillion.
More on Wikipedia ↗Taiwanese semiconductor foundry company
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. Headquartered in Hsinchu Science Park, it was the world's largest non-US company by market capitalisation as of June 30, 2026. It holds a commanding majority in the semiconductor foundry market, accounting for approximately 70% of the global market share. As the leading dedicated contract chipmaker, it serves as the main supplier for Nvidia, Apple, Broadcom, and Qualcomm.
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Terafab is a planned semiconductor fabrication plant jointly developed by Tesla, SpaceX, and Intel. The venture was announced by Elon Musk on March 21, 2026, and centers on the construction of a vertically integrated large-scale facility designed to produce more than one terawatt of artificial intelligence (AI) compute capacity per year. It aims to produce integrated circuits, memory modules and multi-chip modules under one roof by consolidating every stage of the semiconductor device production process, including chip design, fabrication, memory production, advanced packaging, and testing.
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