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Musk Says SpaceX Will Use Nvidia Chips Exclusively

8/15/2026

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Summary

Story summary

Nvidia Corp.’s stake in SpaceX fell to about $17.2 billion after the share price dropped from $170.86 to $140.
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., said SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia chips and expects a Vera Rubin GPU allocation next year.
SpaceX and Nvidia are building the Starmind payload that will use Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for data-center-level processing in orbit.

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Historical Context

NASA’s tradition of on-orbit experimentation dates back to the 1966 Zero-Gravity Research Facility and the 1993 RAVEN virtual-reality EVA trainer, which prepared astronauts for micro-gravity tasks. Building on that legacy, the 2018 ISS installation of Nvidia’s Jetson TX2 proved AI could run in space, and SpaceX’s Starmind payload now aims to expand in-orbit processing with Nvidia GPUs.

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Story summary

Nvidia Corp.’s stake in SpaceX fell to about $17.2 billion after the share price dropped from $170.86 to $140.
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., said SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia chips and expects a Vera Rubin GPU allocation next year.
SpaceX and Nvidia are building the Starmind payload that will use Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for data-center-level processing in orbit.

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