Elon Musk's aerospace and AI company reportedly plans to make its own GPUs, though I doubt you'll one day be enjoying a SpaceX graphics card in your rig

SpaceX, the private aerospace and AI company founded by Elon Musk, is reportedly planning to make its own GPUs in the not too distant future.

The company plans to go public this summer, with an expected IPO of $1.75 trillion. Part of that process involves filing an S-1 ​registration with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which details a company's finances and risks prior to going public. Reuters reviewed an excerpt of this document, and spotted that SpaceX lists "manufacturing our own GPUs" under its "substantial capital expenditures."

Now, you and I think of a very distinct, game-ready thing when we hear the term 'GPU', but I suspect SpaceX's plans don't fully fall upon the same page. The odds are these chips will be more specifically geared towards some sort of AI workload, not unlike Google's tensor ​processing units (or TPUs, if you were hankering for yet another hardware initialism).

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