Intel has announced the grand opening of its new semiconductor fab expansion at its D1X facility in Oregon. Costing $4.2 billion, the new Mod3 expansion delivers an “additional 270,000 square feet of clean room space to develop next-generation silicon process technologies”. That’ll come in handy for Intel’s aggressive process node ramping plans.
Intel plans to rapidly introduce new process nodes over the coming years, from Intel 7 today to Intel 18A by the middle of the decade, and it’s planning to invest heavily in its Intel-owned and operated manufacturing facilities to deliver on each of those.
“Since its founding, Intel has been devoted to relentlessly advancing Moore’s Law,” Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO, says. “This new factory space will bolster our ability to deliver the accelerated process roadmap required to support…
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