Anonymous ID: 7bb229 May 16, 2019, 6:06 p.m. No.6517150   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Intel to build $3.5B chip plant in Israel

It will make chips using an advanced 45-nanometer process

 

IDG News Service | December 01, 2005 12:00 AM PT

 

Intel Corp. announced today that it plans to immediately begin construction of a $3.5 billion advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in Kiryat Gat, Israel.

 

Called Fab 28, the plant will be Intel's seventh facility worldwide capable of producing 300mm silicon wafers, from which its microprocessors are cut. Intel currently has five 300mm chip plants in the U.S. and another in Ireland.

 

Compared to the more common practice of making chips from 200mm wafers, making chips from 300mm wafers uses 40% less energy and water per chip and reduces manufacturing costs, the company said.

 

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2561098/intel-to-build–3-5b-chip-plant-in-israel.html