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Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the company will likely need to build a "gigantic" semiconductor fabrication plant to keep up with its artificial intelligence and robotics ambitions.

"One of the things I'm trying to figure out is — how do we make enough chips?" Musk said at Tesla's annual shareholders meeting Thursday.

Tesla currently relies on contract chipmakers Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Samsung Electronics to produce its chip designs. Musk said he was also considering working with U.S. chip company Intel .

"But even when we extrapolate the best-case scenario for chip production from our suppliers, it's still not enough," he said.

Tesla would probably need to

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