Intel inaugurates a new 45nm factory Posted on 02/07/2008 at 21:46 by Nicolas
- source: divers
Yesterday, the CPU giant inaugurated a new factory planned for 45nm in Israel, a country where it has been for more than 30 years now. The facility may require 1,900 employees. It is the third of its type and should enable the company to considerably improve its capacity as the value of production should be around $10 million daily. However, it should be added that the site cost them roughly $3.5 billion.
Installed next to the FAB 18, which was handed over to Numonyx (the Flash subsidiary in which STM and Francisco Partners are also stockholders), it will replace the Jerusalem based FAB 8 and the first to be built outside of the U.S. Since then, the Santa Clara firm seems to have learned how to take advantage of its proximity to the Middle East because its on-site teams were able to develop CPUs such as the Pentium M or Nehalem.
Yesterday, the CPU giant inaugurated a new factory planned for 45nm in Israel, a country where it has been for more than 30 years now. The facility may require 1,900 employees. It is the third of its type and should enable the company to considerably improve its capacity as the value of production should be around $10 million daily. However, it should be added that the site cost them roughly $3.5 billion.