Intel says its US mega-fab will be a $120 billion "little city"

guest · Aug 9, 2021

Intel says its US mega-fab will be a $120 billion "little city"
"I want to build factories a lot faster than we can today," said CEO Pat Gelsinger
August 9, 2021
https://www.techspot.com/news/90709-intel-us-mega-fab-120-billion-little-city.html

In context: We know that as part of its IDM 2.0 initiative, Intel is aiming to compete with semiconductor manufacturing giants TSMC, Samsung, and other rivals by 2025. To achieve this goal, it is building a mega-fab in the US—and it's going to be big: costing between $60 billion - $120 billion and creating tens of thousands of jobs.

Back in March, CEO Pat Gelsinger's announced that Intel would open up both its current and planned manufacturing capacity to other chipmakers through the launch of Intel Foundry Services (IFS);
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In an interview with the Washington Post, Gelsinger revealed some specifics of this project. It's going to be a huge site consisting of six to eight fab modules, each costing between $10 billion to $15 billion. That means the final cost of construction will be between $60 billion - $120 billion.

"It's a project over the next decade on the order of $100 billion of capital, 10,000 direct jobs. 100,000 jobs are created as a result of those 10,000, by our experience. So, essentially, we want to build a little city," Gelsinger said.
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plat · Aug 9, 2021

I heard in the news the other day, some towns in California are now having to have water delivered via train and trucks. The drought is not expected to ease anytime soon. So, it's possible, even likely, that Intel will build its fab much farther east.

Let's see. I think it's kind of good news from the hardware viewpoint. This chip shortage has gotten old.

xxJackxx · Aug 9, 2021

plat1098 said: ↑

I heard in the news the other day, some towns in California are now having to have water delivered via train and trucks. The drought is not expected to ease anytime soon. So, it's possible, even likely, that Intel will build its fab much farther east.

Let's see. I think it's kind of good news from the hardware viewpoint. This chip shortage has gotten old.
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I'd like to send them some rain from the great lakes area. This is the wettest summer we have had in a long time. Maybe they could go farther west and build it underwater just off the coast. Maybe if companies like Intel weren't slacking we'd have underwater cities and flying cars and bases on the moon...

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