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Intel On A Building Spree

Posted by Hemos on from the building-for-the-future dept.

Anonymous Cowherd writes "Intel will build two new facilities - a new chip plant and a new wafer plant. The new chip plant will be built in Kiryat Gat, Israel, continuing Intel's 30 years operation in the country. Intel already owns several facilities in Israel, both for R&D and for manufacturing. Previous developments of Intel Israel are the 8088 processor, MMX and the Centrino mobile platform. The new wafer plant will be built in an existing facility at Chandler, Arizona, and will feature 45nm technology - 1/1,333th the width of a human hair. The technology is two generations ahead of the current 90nm. Intel's Arizona operation includes production of the Pentium processor family and related chipsets."

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  1. 1/1,333th by Dayze!Confused · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thirth? I believe this should be 1/1,333rd.

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    1. Re:1/1,333th by jrockway · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually, they obviouly meant to write "1/1,337th".

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  2. Uh huh by hobotron · · Score: 5, Funny


    "The technology is two generations ahead of the current 90nm."

     And it will take 2 generations to build.

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  3. Chips, wafers by gunpowda · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's the waffle factory? We need to know!

  4. Re:Ah, Science Journalism! by Phurd+Phlegm · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's like the insight given by the statement that a mole of marshmellows would cover the US 512 miles deep.
    Nice going. Now that someone's thought of a 512-mile deep mole made of marshmallows, that's what Gozer will return as.