Monday, February 11th 2019
Intel Invests €7 Billion in Ireland Toward a New Fab
Intel is following up on its massive $11 billion investment in Israel with a second large manufacturing investment, this time in Leixlip, Ireland. The company has earmarked a €7 billion investment toward construction of a new fab in Leixlip, which will employ 1,600 people, and have a built-up area of 110,000 m². This fab will sit alongside existing fabs that already employ over 4,500 staff. The company did not go into details of what the fab will manufacture. The investment aligns with Intel's strategy of massive investments in manufacturing to increase its chip volumes as enterprises, small and medium businesses, and consumers at large look to upgrade their computers at the turn of the decade. The company is already combating acute shortages of processors in the retail channel.
Source:
Irish Times
12 Comments on Intel Invests €7 Billion in Ireland Toward a New Fab
How do you even know that this will be making somethinguseful to people on tjis forum? Maybe it's for enterprise SSD? Maybe drones? :D
But it also could be for enterprise SSDs, communication, AI chips, GPUs - all kinds of things Intel is (or will soon be) making.
Or maybe they're trying something new? Surprisingly, there are still some semiconductor products Intel isn't making (e.g. camera sensors).
It looks like the market has accepted current Intel pricing. We shouldn't expect a significant change.
A lot of people buy Intel because they're stupid, not because Intel make better CPUs. Just saying .
Though I did have a kit of 3200 c16-18-18 that would refuse to run at anything over 2933 on pretty much the same selection of Ryzen so yeah. Hopefully DDR4 support does get better with Ryzen 3000 but buying intel (and getting inferior performance for more money) just because you are worried about RAM not working seems like a really dumb thing to me.
For example 2600X is cheaper than 9400/8400 here and the former comes with Division 2 and is just as good in games, but has significantly more multi-threaded performance and will last longer in newer games (my opinion please dont hate me for it). And the socket fully supports the next gen CPUs on 7nm and maybe beyond. Buying those intel CPUs just seems stupid to me?
Either way I refuse to buy Intel CPUs until i consider them to be worth what they are priced at, and that means more than 6 threads in the £200~ price point (They still can't offer at least 8 threads here despite selling quads with HT for nearly a decade). Also I hate intel managment and marketing. But heyho. Yes it's a principal thing too. Intel has stagnated and milked the market for way too long and Ryzen just makes me happy.
And a happy catgirl means no one's getting clawed. >:3
I want to believe !
Looks like they should have gone ahead then and just updated the equipment as they went along, that might have been cheaper and saved them from some of the "shortages".