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Intel breaks ground on $20 bln Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up
Reuters ^ | September 25, 2021 | Stephen Nellis

Posted on 09/28/2021 3:19:31 PM PDT by george76

Intel .. on Friday broke ground on two new factories in Arizona as part of its turnaround plan to become a major manufacturer of chips for outside customers.

The $20 billion plants - dubbed Fab 52 and Fab 62 - will bring the total number of Intel factories at its campus in Chandler, Arizona, to six. They will house Intel's most advanced chipmaking technology and play a central role in the Santa Clara, California-based company's effort to regain its lead in making the smallest, fastest chips by 2025, after having fallen behind rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

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deepening its manufacturing relationship with the U.S. military.

"We want to have more resilience to the supply chain," Intel Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger, who earlier in the week attended a White House meeting on the global chip shortage, told Reuters in an interview. "As the only company on U.S. soil that can do the most advanced lithography processes in the world, we are going to step up in a big way."

Gelsinger said it was too early to say how much of the new plants' capacity would be reserved for outside customers. He said the plants would produce "thousands" of wafers per week.

Wafers are the silicon discs on which chips are made, and each can hold hundreds or even thousands of chips.

Intel rival TSMC has also purchased land to build its first U.S. campus in Phoenix, not far from Intel's location, where TSMC plans up to six chip factories, Reuters previously reported.

Gelsinger said Intel plans to announce another U.S. campus site before the end of the year that will eventually hold eight chip factories.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: amd; arizona; chandler; chip; chipshortage; elonmusk; intel; shortage; tesla; tiawan; tsmc
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1 posted on 09/28/2021 3:19:31 PM PDT by george76
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What ? Not building in Kalifornia ?


2 posted on 09/28/2021 3:23:15 PM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good as )
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Good move: It’s in the USA

Bad move: It’s in Arizona. A locale that is already short of water.


3 posted on 09/28/2021 3:24:03 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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>> broke ground on two new factories in Arizona as part of its turnaround plan

Did Intel just come up with that idea?


4 posted on 09/28/2021 3:24:13 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: george76

good news.


5 posted on 09/28/2021 3:24:53 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: jcon40

LOL

Even Leftists aren’t that stupid.


6 posted on 09/28/2021 3:25:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Biden = Green Light to > China, N. K., Russia, M/E Terrorists, FBI, CDC, MSM, & the Left...)
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To: george76

It loos like the Tiawan plant is well underway off the north side of 303.


7 posted on 09/28/2021 3:28:41 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: george76

Finally! I was wondering when that would happen. Intel used to have a great facility in Chandler.


8 posted on 09/28/2021 3:29:19 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: george76

This is a great story.


9 posted on 09/28/2021 3:38:33 PM PDT by jd777
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

We just had the rainiest summer in 12 years. It was mire than the previous 12 years combined. If we have a water shortage, it is a manufactured crisis.


10 posted on 09/28/2021 3:41:30 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The biggest fab in the world is already in Chandler, AZ.
Intel does a great job minimizing water usage.
I worked for them for almost 30 years.


11 posted on 09/28/2021 3:48:24 PM PDT by Zathras
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"What ? Not building in Kalifornia ?"

I don't understand why they are both building in a very dry area that already has water shortages and are projected to be even worse in the near future.

I was making chips for National Semiconductoe when Intel started-up just down the way on E Middlefield road.

12 posted on 09/28/2021 4:03:56 PM PDT by blam
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To: george76

This is good news.


13 posted on 09/28/2021 4:06:40 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: george76

Looks like full employment for all those Haitians and Afghans


14 posted on 09/28/2021 4:09:23 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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"Bad move: It’s in Arizona. A locale that is already short of water."

No problem, we just steal California's by declaring that US water resources should go to American citizens first instead of the 27% of California that is foreign born. 26.7% of California's residents are foreign born while Arizona has only half that at 13.4%.

source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/312701/percentage-of-population-foreign-born-in-the-us-by-state/

15 posted on 09/28/2021 4:12:23 PM PDT by WMarshal ("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
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To: Zathras

Ditto the NM plant.


16 posted on 09/28/2021 4:19:25 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: jcon40
"What ? Not building in Kalifornia ?

Semiconductor plants and seismic activity are not a good combination.

What's the price of electricity like in AZ?
17 posted on 09/28/2021 4:38:04 PM PDT by indthkr
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What's the price of electricity like in AZ?

Much better than in California.

Arizona sells a lot of electricity to California.

18 posted on 09/28/2021 4:46:41 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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The water shortage is caused by increased population growth in the western states that get there water from snow melt..


19 posted on 09/28/2021 4:49:11 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: george76

They haven’t even finished the massive fab they are building in Seattle. And they keep insisting they aren’t leaving California.


20 posted on 09/28/2021 5:03:19 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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