US Semiconductors SpaceX’s Terafab - Putting Things In Perspective

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US Semiconductors SpaceX’s Terafab - Putting Things In Perspective

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Timothy Arcuri

The What, Why, and When of Musk's Terafab plans Analyst

In conjunction with UBS' initiation of SpaceX (covered by John Hodulik), we outline the timothy.arcuri@ubs.com

size, scale, and potential impact to the broader Semi Equipment supply chain. While it is +1-415-352 5676

fair to question the magnitude, Elon Musk has set forth a clear vision to build a vertically Gianmarco Vella

integrated semiconductor complex capable of producing terawatt-scale AI compute to Associate Analyst

resemble what has been demonstrated with Tesla's battery strategy (i.e., the gianmarco.vella@ubs.com

Gigafactory). In that case, when the industry could not meet Tesla's battery capacity +1-415-352 4555

requirements in 2014, the company effectively built its own fully integrated battery Alex Kivali

production supply chain. Similarly, Terafab appears to target the full semiconductor Analyst

complex including mask shop, leading foundry/logic & memory process flows, alex.kivali@ubs.com

packaging and testing, all under one roof - enabling rapid “design/build/test/redesign” +1-212-713 3945

cycles (Figure 1NotablecomentsfromtheTerafabpresentation(Mar-2026)). Importantly, we believe our supply chain datapoints appear more Natalia Winkler, CFA

credible than many investors still seem willing to underwrite. Grimes County (TX) public Analyst

hearing notices, recent executive hires and an extensive list of Terafab-related process natalia.winkler@ubs.com

engineering jobs are now being further substantiated by our discussion with equipment +1-415-352 4626