{"id":19359,"date":"2026-06-05T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/19359\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:42:06","slug":"elon-musk-to-pitch-spacexs-terafab-to-asml-employees-ahead-of-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/19359\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk to Pitch SpaceX’s Terafab to ASML Employees Ahead of IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk is kicking off SpaceX’s public debut<\/a> with a personal pitch to employees at a critical Terafab supplier.<\/p>\n

The SpaceX founder will participate in a virtual fireside chat with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet at the company’s annual technology conference next Thursday, according to internal communications seen by Business Insider.<\/p>\n

The event will see Musk “share his vision on AI, robotics, space, and semiconductor manufacturing, including the Terafab concept” with ASML engineers and other employees, according to a description posted on an internal employee portal.<\/p>\n

ASML describes the technology conference<\/a>, which is not open to the public, as a global event for employees and partners to share technical innovations and breakthroughs.<\/p>\n

The virtual event comes a day before SpaceX is set to go public at a potential valuation of $1.75 billion.<\/p>\n

The Terafab, a joint venture between SpaceX, Tesla, and Intel<\/a> to construct a series of enormous semiconductor factories, is a key part of SpaceX’s pitch to investors.<\/p>\n

Much of SpaceX’s valuation and revenue projections<\/a> are built on the company’s ambitious plans to deploy up to a million orbital data centers<\/a>, which Musk has said will require an enormous supply of chips built in-house by the Terafab.<\/p>\n

Netherlands-based ASML, Europe’s most valuable tech company, is a critical part of that vision. It is the only company that makes extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines<\/a> \u2014 bus-sized devices that are vital for producing cutting-edge semiconductors at scale.<\/p>\n

ASML CEO Fouquet told Reuters<\/a> last month that he had spoken to Musk about the Terafab project, without providing details.<\/p>\n

He added that he expects SpaceX’s ambitious aims to scale to a terawatt of AI compute a year will likely lead to supply bottlenecks in the semiconductor market in the coming years.<\/p>\n

ASML and SpaceX did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is kicking off SpaceX’s public debut with a personal pitch to employees at a critical Terafab…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1456,65,4619,14973,14975,781,130,8,4703,18,2367,14974,14972,14976,3758,6327],"class_list":["post-19359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-asml","tag-ai","tag-asml","tag-asml-ceo-christophe-fouquet","tag-asml-employees","tag-big-tech-company","tag-business-insider","tag-company","tag-elon-musk","tag-employee","tag-europe","tag-event","tag-personal-pitch","tag-pitch-spacex","tag-robotic","tag-terafab","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}