Chandler, Arizona Gets a Big One

Intel is sinking $3 billion into a new chip manufacturing plant in Chandler, Arizona.

The 300-mm wafer fabrication plant is expected to produce by the second half of 2007. It will be the sixth facility of its kind owned by Intel and focused on the company's most cutting edge 45 nanometer process technology for future computing platforms.

Currently, most chips are produced using a 90-nanometer process, with 65-nanometer designs on track to debut later this year. Intel's decision to invest billions of dollars in a new, U.S.-based plant was a positive counterpoint of the trend to outsource and offshore production in so many areas of the U.S. economy.

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