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cmatoday at 5:31 AM0 repliesview on HN

Think of the factory problem from physics first principals instead, as Elon would say. Musk says he will outcompete earth fabs by building them on the moon in just a few years, deploy radiation harden versions of the chips into space, and beat out TCO vs doing this on earth.

If he can do all that that fast, the RAM makers should be able to at least 1000X their fab capacity on earth in one year. One year for scaling up existing tech is an eternity compared to Elon's timeframe for moon-fabs given the relative complexity of the challenge.