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[nrc]

Intel has announced plans to invest $20 Billion to build a pair of new semiconductor plants in Central Ohio with the intention of developing it into the biggest semiconductor facility on the planet.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/intel-ceo-thrilled-launching-silicon-104218193.html
https://www.whio.com/news/intel-build-20b-ohio/PCWMMQGABSF2BBREFZAONNGEZA/

Eat it Amazon HQ2. :tony:

[SteveH]

related, sort of…

This 22-year-old builds chips in his parents’ garage (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/this-22-year-old-builds-chips-in-his-parents-garage/)

I can’t even imagine…

[TravelGal]

Intel has announced plans to invest $20 Billion to build a pair of new semiconductor plants in Central Ohio with the intention of developing it into the biggest semiconductor facility on the planet.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/intel-ceo-thrilled-launching-silicon-104218193.html
https://www.whio.com/news/intel-build-20b-ohio/PCWMMQGABSF2BBREFZAONNGEZA/

Eat it Amazon HQ2. :tony:

"The two factories on a 1,000-acre site in Licking County, just east of Columbus" All those tOSU grads must be fertile ground for employees. I remember when Honda built its Marysville plant just NW of Columbus and East Liberty a little further NNW.

[WickerBill]

I know the CEO of Intel, and I know his biggest challenge when he took over was not profits or keeping up with AMD, but national security. This is fascinating.

[nrc]

It does seem odd to me that we have a strategic petroleum reserve but source the vast majority of our semiconductors from a region that our greatest geopolitical rival could cut off at any time. Dumb.

As a refugee for the dying US semiconductor industry in the '90s and the dying US electronics manufacturing industry of the '00s, I feel a certain amount of schadenfreude at their predicament. But then, billions of dollars in subsidies will make sure that our captains of industry don't suffer too much from their poor governance. Nor will the voters ever understand enough to hold the folks in charge accountable.

[SteveH]

As bad as it is for chips I think we are much more vulnerable when it comes to medications.

[stroker]

Well, let's hope somebody realizes we can put a whole lot of people back to work with jobs making stuff again instead of farming those jobs out to $.05/hr foreign labor.

[SteveH]

Some manufacturers have less than 5 days' supply of computer chips, Commerce Department warns (https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/25/tech/chip-shortage-commerce-department-warning/index.html)

[SteveH]

Fabs stretched thin as chip shortage shrinks inventories to just 5 days
Relief appears to be months, if not years, away. (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/fabs-stretched-thin-as-chip-shortage-shrinks-inventories-to-just-5-days/)

a bit more depth on this...

[TravelGal]

As bad as it is for chips I think we are much more vulnerable when it comes to medications.

Vulnerable in all senses of the word.

[JohnHKart]

Read about this when I googled chip manufacturing in America earlier in week. The factory is three years away from completion, and they still have to send the chips back to China to assemble them!

[G.]

I know the CEO of Intel, and I know his biggest challenge when he took over was not profits or keeping up with AMD, but national security. This is fascinating.

It's very tough to get foundry time to build very small qtys. of very custom prototpe ICs. Where does one go for 3 8" wafers?

"What are your long-term projected quantities?"
"Those three." :laugh: