Intel finally has its breakthrough. Tesla plans to tap the chip giant’s 14A manufacturing process for its ambitious Terafab project. Elon Musk dropped the news during Tesla’s earnings call on April 22, 2026. Shares of Intel jumped 2.6% in extended trading that day, a rare spark for a company long battered by manufacturing woes. Musk didn’t mince words. “Given that by the time Terafab scales up, 14A will be probably fairly mature or ready for prime time, 14A seems like the right move, and we have a great relationship with Intel,” he said, as reported by Yahoo Finance citing Reuters. This marks Intel’s first major external customer for 14A, a node roughly equivalent to 1.4nm that promises to challenge Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s dominance. Terafab itself is Musk’s audacious bid for self-sufficiency in AI compute.…