Re:Intel expands Oregon Fab building; 18A Node now 2024
by jason-phillips on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:55AM
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> Wouldn't it still take quite a long time to get a new fab to the point of being productive?
Possibly years.
Re:Intel expands Oregon Fab building; 18A Node now 2024
by to11mtm on Sunday August 07, 2022 @11:17AM
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I mean... in the nightmare case...
I honestly don't know if you can 're-clean' a clean room if it's flooded with the right things. And the right things might just be seawater.
(IDK. Not a fab engineer by any stretch.)
Wouldn't it still take quite a long time to get a new fab to the point of being productive? These machines aren't exactly sitting in storage by the hundreds, and I imagine you'd also need to dial in all the processes pretty well to get good yields? (though I have no idea what that entails...)