BigMikeATL t1_j087rrt wrote
Reply to comment by navigationallyaided in Japan to Manufacture 2nm Chips With a Little Help From IBM by Avieshek
Yup. The Intel plant in Chandler is currently undergoing a $20B expansion. That’s in addition to the new TSMC plant.
Samsung is also building a huge semiconductor plant in Texas.
navigationallyaided t1_j08hvik wrote
Intel also has a fab in Hillsboro - but I haven’t heard plans for it.
The eventual goal with the new C-suite at Intel - they want to be a contract supplier. Many of the current IC companies who make important components or even whole systems like Qualcomm, Marvell, Nvidia, AMD and Apple don’t have their own fabs - TSMC and Samsung are doing that. I can see Apple and Intel becoming frenemies, much like the Apple-Samsung relationship. Companies that do work with the military or critical infrastructure might be compelled to have chips fabbed in the US as a matter of national security.
Unaninu t1_j0bpaur wrote
The one in Hillsboro is literally their main fab, where all the R&D and magic happens and where all the other fab will "copy exactly".
Orome2 t1_j09ddan wrote
They are also building a new fab at the existing site in Rio Rancho, NM.
he_who_melts_the_rod t1_j09qcl7 wrote
Completely refitting fab 9.
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