Four Intel Fabs Now Using .13-Micron Process
Posted December 11, 2001; WW50
Fab 17 in Hudson, Mass is the latest manufacturing facility to produce Intel’s world-class microprocessors using .13-micron process technology. The Hudson site began production with the .13-micron process on 200-millimeter wafers in November.
Intel now has four factories running the .13-micron process: Fab 17, Fab 20 in Hillsboro, Ore., D2 in Santa Clara, Calif., and Fab 22 in Chandler, Ariz. Two more will come online next year: D1C in Hillsboro, and Fab 11X in Rio Rancho, N.M.
“This reflects our commitment to remain the leader in semiconductor manufacturing and technology,” said Gadi Dvir, Fab 17 plant manager.
The copper-based, .13-micron process can build the world’s fastest transistors currently in production, providing the basis for fast microprocessors, including the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor. The process can build circuits so small that it would take roughly 1,000 of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
Intel has invested $1.5 billion in the past two years to expand manufacturing space within its Fab 17 plant in Hudson and to update it for the company’s .13-micron manufacturing process. That plant has approximately 95,000 square feet of clean room space and employs more than 1,700 people.
Fab 17 is on Intel’s 149-acre Hudson campus, acquired from Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998. As it expands volume manufacture of advanced microprocessors, the Hudson site continues to build and support Intel® IXP1200 network processors, microprocessors for handheld computing, and other products. |
