Intel to invest $7B in factory in Arizona, employ 3,000

Re:Intel to invest $7B in factory in Arizona, employ 3,000 by sbov on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:25PM (#13601206)

I don't know enough about the industry to know if superfund sites are a necessary thing for chip fabs.

That said, these chips have to be made somewhere. Is your solution to this to create superfund sites in other countries? To me, that isn't a solution. I would rather we make superfund sites here, so we have reasons to fix the problem, rather than create them elsewhere.

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Re:Intel to invest $7B in factory in Arizona, employ 3,000 by narrator on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @03:57PM (#13602017)

Are they still using TCE[1] to manufacture semiconductors? That stuff is the major pollutant in silicon valley left over from all the early semiconductor manufacturing. There are a lot of really expensive homes and offices in Palo Alto that are built over sites where this stuff has leaked.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene

[2] http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/05/palo-alto-stanford-can...

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Re:Intel to invest $7B in factory in Arizona, employ 3,000 by rm_-rf_slash on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:31PM (#13601270)

Or you could pay a surtax on imports that aren't built with the environmental standards of the native country, as we are seeing with attempts for a carbon tax.

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