Speaking outside Tesla's Austin Gigafactory, Musk said his companies' expertise in building custom equipment makes it likely they will "find a better way than anyone to manufacture chips." He said he currently "doesn't know how to make microchips, but we'll figure it out," and cautioned it could "take years." Speaking via livestream at an X Takeover event, Musk said he saw little custom equipment at rival facilities and that his firms' experience building such tools could enable process improvem

Speaking outside Tesla's Austin Gigafactory, Musk said his companies' expertise in building custom equipment makes it likely they will "find a better way than anyone to manufacture chips." He said he currently "doesn't know how to make microchips, but we'll figure it out," and cautioned it could "take years." Speaking via livestream at an X Takeover event, Musk said he saw little custom equipment at rival facilities and that his firms' experience building such tools could enable process improvements, calling advanced chipmaking "one of the hardest things in the world."