Will Intel’s plant help the company realize its ambitious plans?
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INTEL HAS ANNOUNCED that it’s opening a huge new chip fabrication plant in Ohio. Construction on the 1,000-acre site is due to start this year, and the first phase will see an investment of $20 billion into two fabs. It will then be expanded into a ‘mega’ site with up to eights fabs and a total investment of around $100 billion. Once complete, it will be one of the world’s biggest semiconductor manufacturing plants, and though it’s not yet clear which process nodes each fab will build, we expect Intel’s 20A and 18A process (yes, we have reached angstrom measurements). Intel’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger, said it will “help build a more resilient supply chain”. Fabs aren’t simple to build though and we won’t see any silicon from the site for three years.