Tesla (TSLA) reported a "triple beat" in financial results, with gross margins of 21% (vs. 17% expected), revenue of $22.39B, and EPS of $0.41. The company is expanding into semiconductor fabrication through a partnership with SpaceX to build a massive chip fab for vertical integration of logic and memory. This initiative includes a research fab at the Gigafactory Texas campus and the completion of the AI5 inference processor design.