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AS Profile Another panellist pointed to the pervasiveness of ARM's chips - something the company has achieved by licensing its IP to partners, rather than having its own fabs with all the associated cost and risk. [29 Sep 2009]
An Intel Retrofit Data Center
White Paper Old fabs don't go away, they come back as.data centers? The presenter of this webcast shows how Intel took a wafer Fabrication facility (fab) with a 3-story design and retrofited it as a data center. One can see... [02 Apr 2009]
Seagate: We won't do flash, it doesn't pay
News The company will not, however, be setting up its own fabs. What's important to us in solid state is we're not going to get into fabs. The world's largest hard drive maker Seagate is planning to bring out... [05 Nov 2008]
Intel hypes 45-nanometre chip
News Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel, referring to chip factories, known as 'fabs', said: "They aren't out of the fab yet but they are in the fab. Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre... [30 Nov 2006]
Intel set to build $400m testing plant in India
News Testing and assembly facilities also cost less than fabs, which can cost $3bn to build. Intel plans to build a testing and packaging facility in India - capitalising on a growing local market and inexpensive labour,... [15 Jun 2005]
Intel to replace silicon
News The gate dielectric on chips coming out of Intel’s fabs next year will only be four to five atoms thick, David said. Moore's Law is alive and well, but Intel is changing its basic semiconductor recipes to make sure it... [05 Nov 2003]
China's entry will cause next downturn in chips market
News Fabs get more expensive as Moore's Law progresses, said to Chang, who said it takes $30m to design a complex chip in the current generation of technology, referring to chips with features about 90 nanometers (billionths... [16 Sep 2003]
Can the beige box ever be a green box?
Comment Legislation is likely to require manufacturers to ensure any potentially harmful products shipped out from their fabs are recovered post-obsolescence. When the time comes to scrap your PC, whose responsibility is it to... [23 Apr 2003]
Intel's Barrett: This year, we'll be mostly doing chips...
News The conversion - which will give Intel five 300mm fabs when completed in 2005 - will cost about $2bn but will pay dividends in higher productivity. Intel this year will focus on what it does best: crank out chips and... [19 Feb 2003]
'Strained silicon': How it works
News Chips made on the 90-nanometer process will first come from the company's fabs in Oregon and later from the facilities in Ireland and New Mexico, which are geared more for mass production. By Michael Kanellos [13 Aug 2002]
Chips market will struggle until 2003
News As a result, major chipmakers such as AMD, Infineon, Intel, Motorola and Texas Instruments are all tightening their belts, with some even closing or putting off construction of new fabs, the plants where semiconductors... [01 Nov 2001]
NEC set to have its fabs nabbed
News Global electronics contract manufacturer Solectron has announced its intention to buy NEC Ibaragi's factory operations. NEC Ibaragi is the large-scale computer server and workstation business of the NEC /Corporation based in Japan. [23 Oct 2001]
Intel chief promises the chips will continue to go down
News Intel CEO Craig Barrett has said the chip giant will continue to cut processor prices, but claimed the reductions were due to improvements on manufacturing techniques and not due to the weakness of the semiconductor market. [06 Aug 2001]
A tale of two chippies
Comment The cost of running fabs - the plants where chips are made - is huge. Yet because they are both often bracketed as 'chips companies', it's interesting to consider their relative well-being. Motorola has been hogging the... [11 Apr 2001]
Intel invests $10m in UK's Bookham Technology
News Bookham owns its own small fabrication facility in Oxfordshire, but Rickman said the company is not ruling out the future use of CMOS fabs owned by Intel. Bookham Technology, which produces optical networking technology,... [24 Nov 1998]
