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Intel Drafting $2B Plant Conversion

CHANDLER, AZ-Work on the 900,000-sf plant will begin by midyear 2004, with completion now marked for late 2005. The 4500 S. Dobson Rd. facility, developed in 1996, will be the fifth in the Intel line-up with the same capacity.

By Beverly Ford | Updated on February 19, 2003

CHANDLER, AZ-Intel Corp. will undertake a $2-billion conversion project that will turn the company’s Fab 12 plant, a 200-mm wafer fabrication facility in Occatillo, into a 300-mm wafer fab within two years.

The project is slated to begin on the 4500 S. Dobson Rd. facility by midyear 2004. Production should start on the 65-nanometer process technology by late 2005. Intel also has a second facility at the same site in Chandler, Fab 22, which opened in 2001.

“This technology greatly improves our capital efficiency by giving us more than twice the capacity at significantly lower costs,” Bob Baker, senior vice president and general manger of Intel Technology and Manufacturing Group, said in a press release. “Additionally, by reusing an existing 200-mm factory we save additional capital and take advantage of the highly skilled workforce we already have in place.” He added production of the new 300-mm wafers will give Intel the ability to deliver greater computing power and functionality at a lower cost to its customers.

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