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BigMikeATL t1_j087rrt wrote

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.

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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.

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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".

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