that competing against TSMC head on was pretty much impossible. But he then asked his followers how less impossible it would be for a big tech company to make its own bespoke chips, rather than competing against the general purpose companies. Cue one small reply from a certain Elon Musk:"Tesla could do it, but I sure hope we don’t have to."wasn't about Tesla trying to become the next TSMC.
Musk's claim that"Tesla could do it" isn't perhaps entirely hyperbole, despite Carmack inferring that making very specific chips isn't really any less impossible than making themfor the general market. Although it's not the same level of complexity, Tesla has switched from buying Li-ion batteries from parties such as Panasonic, to building huge factories to make its own.