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Intel Reopens Upgraded Chip Plant Agencies
Intel Corporation has restarted a factory after spending billion to retool it with the latest technologies that will let it produce more powerful chips more efficiently and at a lower cost. The plant, known as Feb 12, is Intel’s second that has begun volume production combining wafers that are 300 millimeters in diameter, about the size of a dinner plate, which a 65 nanometer etching process. Intel, the world’s top chipmaker, is moving to 65 nanometer technology from 90 nanometer. The smaller etching process means Intel can make its chips smaller and more powerful by squeezing more transistors on them, while larger wafer size means it can get more chips out of each wafer.
“It’s back running production volume and over the next year that will ramp,” Bob Baker, Intel’s vice president of manufacturing, said.
The factory, which was taken offline a year and a half ago, would make “almost all” of Intel’s microprocessor line-up, Baker said.
Posted on: Apr 18, 2006
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