The fact that an Intel fab here or there makes other products besides CPU's is irrelevant since it is only 25% of Intel's business. If you want to count all product lines, Intel must have at least 14 fabs.
intel.com
LEIXLIP, Ireland, May 11, 1998 -- Intel Corporation officially opened the first 0.25 micron microprocessor production factory within
Europe, the company announced today. The new factory, called Fab 14,...
This fab must be making microprocessor cores exclusively since the article states it is exclusively 0.25 micron, and Paul Engel said that the SRAM chips are not on a 0.25µ process. Furthermore, later on, the press release states that there are a total of FOUR fabs making 0.25µ microprocessors. Which measns that there must be at least a couple fabs making 0.35 micron microprocessors.
Intel, unlike AMD is still making 0.35µ microprocessors: "Intel will convert its entire microprocessor production to 0.25 micron technology by the beginning of the fourth quarter of this year. Ireland will play an important role in that conversion."
So, Intel has at least six fabs making microprocessors. I assume the other eight fabs make the products like chipsets (0.6µ technology, according to the article), flash EPROM and SRAM. If I am wrong, prove it by listing all of the Intel fabs and what they make.
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