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Elon Musk wants to build a dirty fab that you can smoke and eat cheeseburgers in — bets that Tesla will turn the concept of cleanrooms upside down

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Elon Musk says that modern cleanrooms are built wrong, and if Tesla builds its own fab, he will be able to eat and smoke in that facility.
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Elon Musk expressed skepticism about traditional semiconductor industry standards, questioning the feasibility of using "clean rooms" in chip factories. Speaking at the Moonshots conference in a dialogue with Peter Diamandis, the Tesla CEO announced the TeraFab project – a promising facility for producing 2-nanometer processors. Musk admitted that he doesn't subscribe to the generally accepted concept of clean rooms, and wryly remarked... The po…

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se7en.ws broke the news in on Wednesday, January 7, 2026.
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