Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest chip plant

Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by tracker1 on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:22PM (#30030727)

I think it's more about diversifying locations for labor pooling... Phoenix is growing and now going to have fabs for Intel, Samsung and TSMC. I think it's more about hedging or spreading out the labor pool a bit more and less competition.

As for location, in terms of shipping, they're probably about on par to each other. Not sure how stable it is regarding weather conditions, or natural disaster risk in Ohio vs Arizona though.

In either case, it's good to see some uptick in distributed manufacturing. Concentrating most high technology infrastructure into a relatively small region has proven a disaster when problems inevitably happen.

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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by coredog64 on Friday January 21, 2022 @10:57PM (#30033337)

Not everyone wants to live in Arizona. Picking a location with natural greenery expands the labor pool.

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Re:Intel's $20B Ohio factory could become world's largest ch... by axiolite on Saturday January 22, 2022 @04:39PM (#30041086)

> Picking a location with natural greenery expands the labor pool.

This is provably false. The US population is fleeing the areas with the most natural greenery, migrating south and west. The south western US is primarily dry desert.

"As of the 2010 Census, Nevada was the fastest-growing state in the United States, with an increase of 35.1% in the last ten years. Additionally, Arizona (24.6%), Utah (23.8%), Texas (20.6%), and Colorado (16.9%) were all in the top ten fastest-growing states as well" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_United_States#Cit...

Greenery is nice. Warm weather is also nice. Lack of things like ice storms, fog, black ice, trees falling on power lines, etc., is nice, too.

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