Intel recently announced that the Fab 42 factory, which started construction in 2011 and lasted 10 years with a total investment of 7 billion US dollars, has been fully operational, which will greatly alleviate the current capacity crisis of 10nm chips.
The Arizona-based plant, which began in 2011, was originally planned to produce 450mm wafers on a 14nm process, and was nearing completion as early as 2013. However, in 2014, Intel at that time could not determine the demand for 14nm chips. Because according to the plan, Intel will switch to the 10nm process in 2016. What Intel did not expect was that the 10nm process technology was repeatedly delayed, and the factory was never completed, but it also caused the 14nm chips to be out of stock for a long time.
Previously, Intel had a 10nm factory in Israel and Oregon. With the 10nm factory in Arizona, Intel now has three 10nm factories, and the production capacity of 10nm chips has also increased by more than 50%. It is expected that the supply of the upcoming 11th-generation Core Tiger Lake processors will be relatively sufficient, at least on the mobile side, there will be no coexistence of 14nm and 10nm.
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