By Sayantani Ghosh

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said Tesla probably will have to build “a gigantic chip fab” to make artificial intelligence chips and publicly mused the EV maker could work with Intel.

Tesla is designing its fifth-generation AI chip to power its autonomous ambitions, and Musk at the company’s annual meeting laid out potential manufacturing plans.

“You know, maybe we’ll, we’ll do something with Intel,” Musk said to a cheering crowd of Tesla shareholders. “We haven’t signed any deal, but it’s probably worth having discussions with Intel.”

Struggling U.S. chipmaker Intel has its own chipmaking factories, but has lagged far behind Nvidia in the AI chip race. The U.S. government recently took a 10% stake in Intel, which needs to find an external custom

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