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Re:Intel expands Oregon Fab building; 18A Node now 2024 by jason-phillips on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:55AM (#32376497)
> Wouldn't it still take quite a long time to get a new fab to the point of being productive?

Possibly years.

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Re:Intel expands Oregon Fab building; 18A Node now 2024 by to11mtm on Sunday August 07, 2022 @11:17AM (#32377135)
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.)

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