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SpaceX hires crystal growers for orbital wafer fabs

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SpaceX is hiring crystal growth scientists to build silicon wafer fab lines that could support space-based chip manufacturing, while internally scaling a Grok variant trained on company data.

Reporting date: 2026-02-16 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to February 16, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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SpaceX

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Musk says the future economy will run on mass and energy

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Welcome to February 16, 2026

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SpaceX hires crystal growers for orbital wafer fabs
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Reporting date: 2026-02-16
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-02-16-spacex-hires-crystal-growers
Claim: SpaceX is hiring crystal growth scientists to build silicon wafer fab lines that could support space-based chip manufacturing, while internally scaling a Grok variant trained on company data.
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- Welcome to February 16, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-february-16-2026
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