Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Intel has restarted a factory after spending $2 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 Fab 12, is Intel's second that has begun volume production combining wafers that are 300 millimeters in diameter with a 65 nanometer etching process.
The factory, which was taken offline a year and a half ago, would make "almost all" of the microprocessor line-up, Intel said. The Chandler, Ariz.-based plant had about 1,000 employees, of which about 800 had been sent to work and train at other Intel plants in Oregon, New Mexico and Ireland during the upgrade, the company said.
By: DocMemory
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