Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up

Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by jhgb on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @08:59AM (#28682218)

Pretty much any facility capable of manufacturing semiconductor components has been very busy for the past few years -- Intel even had to resurrect 22nm chips at some time. Why do you assume that this will "go out of fashion in 5 years"? Historically this seems extremely unlikely. If anything, tens of millions of people going out of poverty every year are going to be consuming even more chips.

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Re:Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip f... by adventured on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @09:44AM (#28682696)

And every year 80+ million people come of age such that they become electronics consumers, buying smartphones, laptops and so on. A billion new electronics consumers every ~12 years. The world is going to need a lot more chip manufacturing capacity over the next few decades.

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