"After four years of construction, Intel said on Thursday that its Fab 52 semiconductor plant in Chandler, Arizona is now turning out its first chips. The company also shared more details about the long-awaited CPUs that it will be producing in the facility using Intel's brand new 18A process technology. The announcement comes just six weeks after the Trump administration acquired a 9.9 percent stake in Intel in exchange for $8.9 billion in stock."
"Late last month, Intel invited dozens of analysts and business partners, along with a handful of journalists, to tour Fab 52. The tour offered an extremely rare glimpse into the world of modern chipmaking, where robots perform most tasks, lithography machines the size of school buses print microscopic patterns on silicon wafers, and workers shuffle around in anti-contamination "bunny suits," booties, goggles, and gloves. (Guests are required to wear the suits, too.) Intel says that the air within the fab is recycled every six seconds."
Fab 52 in Chandler, Arizona completed four years of construction and has begun producing its first chips, using Intel's new 18A process technology. The facility will manufacture upcoming CPUs codenamed Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest. The Trump administration recently acquired a 9.9 percent stake in Intel for $8.9 billion in stock. The fab showcases automated manufacturing with robots, large lithography machines, anti-contamination protocols requiring bunny suits, and air recycled every six seconds. The plant aims to prove Intel can produce advanced chips at scale and to help reverse the company's recent struggles.
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