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| ‘Silicon Heartland:' Intel Chooses Ohio to Build Largest Chip Factory ‘on the Planet' |
| 2022-01-23 |
| [Breitbart] Computer chip maker Intel will reportedly be investing $20 billion to develop a new chip manufacturing site in New Albany, Ohio. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told TIME in an interview that the chipmaker expects the location to become “the largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet,” adding that the plant could expand to 2,000 acres. Gelsinger said that the new site could become the “Silicon Heartland.” The Verge reports that chipmaker Intel will be spending $20 billion to construct a new chip manufacturing site in New Albany, Ohio, close to Columbus. The 1,000-acre manufacturing plant will contain two chip factories and will employ at least 3,000 people and “tens of thousands” more across suppliers and company partners. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #20 Well I hope our ummm .. esteemed colleagues in the FBI are adding a FCI wing to the Columbus Resident Office. I'd wager the ChiComms are gonna be all over this place from day 1. |
| Posted by: Bangkok Billy 2022-01-23 15:29 |
| #19 Boeing's product went downhill in the same time frame. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-23 15:11 |
| #18 #16 and then our greatest hi-tech manufacturing firm hired a bean-counter to carve itself up. Swan delighted investors. He nearly killed the company in the process. Shareholder capitalism =/= national security. Sometimes they're compatible. Not always. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 15:00 |
| #17 ^ btw Paul Krugman was one of those genius globalists in the late 1980s/1990s. One of many assholes who forged the chains binding us to China. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 14:58 |
| #16 Intel went from world fab process leader (along with IBM) to 2nd place wannabe in a few years. It was all self inflicted. In 2015-2020, they had a disastrous chief of manufacturing/engineering who screwed up the 10nm manufacturing process several times and delayed the transition to 7nm which AMD was able to exploit. |
| Posted by: Omolung Juns5303 2022-01-23 14:56 |
| #15 Distributed systems are best. Redundancy, resiliency, capacity that can respond to fluctuations in demand. Oh, and, security from hostiles. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-23 14:52 |
| #14 ... after 2+ years ramping up, with even more disruption to our economy. Foreign dependence for vital supplies is a bad idea. The gains to equity investors aren't worth the cost to our national security. And yes, [semiconductor] chips are not equivalent to [potato] chips -- indifferent to orthodox free traders as per theory of comparative advantage. It was really stupid of our globalist geniuses in the 1990s to pretend otherwise. We're paying the price now. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 14:50 |
| #13 ^ Well, as long as AMD has the IP and masks for the chips, they can be made anywhere the right process is in place. Since most of the chipmaking gear actually comes from the Netherlands, probably lots of fabs in America, Ireland, Germany and maybe even Israel could make them. Of course, if China seizes Taiwan without a fight, they will still be able to make those |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-23 14:44 |
| #12 ^ Good for a few AMD shareholders. Disastrous for 330 million Americans |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 14:39 |
| #11 By AMD fabbing their chips with TMSC, they went from 1 process generation behind to 1 process generation ahead of Intel. In those few years, AMD's stock price increased 60X for it. Intel's stock price barely moved. |
| Posted by: Omolung Juns5303 2022-01-23 14:31 |
| #10 AMD's an American company too. They just don't own any fabs. They did, but sold them off, and rely on TSMC for the bulk of their chip manufacturing now. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-23 13:38 |
| #9 They see a market for their chips built in the US as the Asian market will be in flux for a long time. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2022-01-23 13:24 |
| #8 Also room for expansion. Here's a render of the area where the fab will be built. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-01-23 09:54 |
| #7 ^ also access to large supplies of water. Kalifornia's preening Brylcream Governor and idiot environmentalists have given the state such a retarded water policy that CA actually lets winter rainfall flow off into the Pacific each year. Their policies actually create drought -- and use this self-inflicted crisis to push their gerbil worming agenda on the state's businesses and residents. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 09:47 |
| #6 2k, This Ohio not California so not so much The Ohio judges will run the enviroweinies out of town Possibly another reason for building in Ohio |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-01-23 09:38 |
| #5 And now the war in the courtroom over bogus 'environmental' issues. Lawyers prepare your briefcases. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-01-23 08:39 |
| #4 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pat Gelsinger Pat Gelsinger builds stuff and builds companies. He designed the 80486 processor and was Intel's first CTO during its glory years. Unlike our idiot oligarchs, Pat is selfless, humble and generous. He gives half his salary to charity and is probably the only Silicon Valley leader of his stature who's a devout Christian. He helped create William Jessup U. and he helps build dozens of churches across the Americas each year. The man is as down-to-earth as he is smart and successful. "Silicon Heartland" is a fabulous idea and Gelsinger has the expertise and proven track record to make it a reality. He and Gov. DeWine, Sens. Portman and Brown deserve nothing but praise for bringing this about. If we'd had more CEOs like this man, we wouldn't be in the deep hole we find ourselves in now. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 08:07 |
| #3 Nope, no love. |
| Posted by: Lonzo Hapsburg5562 2022-01-23 00:38 |
| #2 No love for HP's Carly Fiorina? /sarcasm, writ small |
| Posted by: Raj 2022-01-23 00:29 |
| #1 Gelsinger expects the investment in that New Albany, OH location to reach $100 billion by 2030. A game-changer. Gelsinger's a smart guy and a talented CEO who knows how to grow big tech companies. Far batter than Beancountin' Bob Swan. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 00:25 |