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2022-01-23 Science & Technology
‘Silicon Heartland:' Intel Chooses Ohio to Build Largest Chip Factory ‘on the Planet'
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Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-23 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Gelsinger expects the investment in that New Albany, OH location to reach $100 billion by 2030.

A game-changer. Gelsinger's a smart guy and a talented CEO who knows how to grow big tech companies. Far batter than Beancountin' Bob Swan.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 00:25||   2022-01-23 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 No love for HP's Carly Fiorina?

/sarcasm, writ small
Posted by Raj 2022-01-23 00:29||   2022-01-23 00:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Nope, no love.
Posted by Lonzo Hapsburg5562 2022-01-23 00:38||   2022-01-23 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pat Gelsinger

Pat Gelsinger builds stuff and builds companies. He designed the 80486 processor and was Intel's first CTO during its glory years.

Unlike our idiot oligarchs, Pat is selfless, humble and generous. He gives half his salary to charity and is probably the only Silicon Valley leader of his stature who's a devout Christian. He helped create William Jessup U. and he helps build dozens of churches across the Americas each year. The man is as down-to-earth as he is smart and successful.

"Silicon Heartland" is a fabulous idea and Gelsinger has the expertise and proven track record to make it a reality. He and Gov. DeWine, Sens. Portman and Brown deserve nothing but praise for bringing this about.

If we'd had more CEOs like this man, we wouldn't be in the deep hole we find ourselves in now.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 08:07||   2022-01-23 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 And now the war in the courtroom over bogus 'environmental' issues. Lawyers prepare your briefcases.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-23 08:39||   2022-01-23 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 2k,
This Ohio not California so not so much
The Ohio judges will run the enviroweinies out of town
Possibly another reason for building in Ohio
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom  2022-01-23 09:38||   2022-01-23 09:38|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ also access to large supplies of water.

Kalifornia's preening Brylcream Governor and idiot environmentalists have given the state such a retarded water policy that CA actually lets winter rainfall flow off into the Pacific each year.

Their policies actually create drought -- and use this self-inflicted crisis to push their gerbil worming agenda on the state's businesses and residents.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 09:47||   2022-01-23 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Also room for expansion. Here's a render of the area where the fab will be built.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-23 09:54||   2022-01-23 09:54|| Front Page Top

#9 They see a market for their chips built in the US as the Asian market will be in flux for a long time.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-01-23 13:24||   2022-01-23 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 AMD's an American company too. They just don't own any fabs. They did, but sold them off, and rely on TSMC for the bulk of their chip manufacturing now.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-23 13:38||   2022-01-23 13:38|| Front Page Top

#11 By AMD fabbing their chips with TMSC, they went from 1 process generation behind to 1 process generation ahead of Intel. In those few years, AMD's stock price increased 60X for it. Intel's stock price barely moved.
Posted by Omolung Juns5303 2022-01-23 14:31||   2022-01-23 14:31|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ Good for a few AMD shareholders.
Disastrous for 330 million Americans
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 14:39||   2022-01-23 14:39|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ Well, as long as AMD has the IP and masks for the chips, they can be made anywhere the right process is in place. Since most of the chipmaking gear actually comes from the Netherlands, probably lots of fabs in America, Ireland, Germany and maybe even Israel could make them.

Of course, if China seizes Taiwan without a fight, they will still be able to make those
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-23 14:44||   2022-01-23 14:44|| Front Page Top

#14 ... after 2+ years ramping up, with even more disruption to our economy.

Foreign dependence for vital supplies is a bad idea. The gains to equity investors aren't worth the cost to our national security.

And yes, [semiconductor] chips are not equivalent to [potato] chips -- indifferent to orthodox free traders as per theory of comparative advantage. It was really stupid of our globalist geniuses in the 1990s to pretend otherwise. We're paying the price now.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 14:50||   2022-01-23 14:50|| Front Page Top

#15 Distributed systems are best. Redundancy, resiliency, capacity that can respond to fluctuations in demand.

Oh, and, security from hostiles.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-23 14:52||   2022-01-23 14:52|| Front Page Top

#16 Intel went from world fab process leader (along with IBM) to 2nd place wannabe in a few years. It was all self inflicted. In 2015-2020, they had a disastrous chief of manufacturing/engineering who screwed up the 10nm manufacturing process several times and delayed the transition to 7nm which AMD was able to exploit.
Posted by Omolung Juns5303 2022-01-23 14:56||   2022-01-23 14:56|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ btw Paul Krugman was one of those genius globalists in the late 1980s/1990s. One of many assholes who forged the chains binding us to China.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 14:58||   2022-01-23 14:58|| Front Page Top

#18 #16 and then our greatest hi-tech manufacturing firm hired a bean-counter to carve itself up. Swan delighted investors. He nearly killed the company in the process.

Shareholder capitalism =/= national security. Sometimes they're compatible. Not always.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-23 15:00||   2022-01-23 15:00|| Front Page Top

#19 Boeing's product went downhill in the same time frame.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-23 15:11||   2022-01-23 15:11|| Front Page Top

#20 Well I hope our ummm .. esteemed colleagues in the FBI are adding a FCI wing to the Columbus Resident Office.

I'd wager the ChiComms are gonna be all over this place from day 1.



Posted by Bangkok Billy 2022-01-23 15:29||   2022-01-23 15:29|| Front Page Top

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