Monday, October 28th 2024
Intel Expands Chengdu Plant With $300 Million Investment
Intel has plans to expands its chip packaging and testing operations in Chengdu, China. The company will put $300 million into Intel Products (Chengdu), as stated in a WeChat post by Chengdu's Reform and Development Commission, and reported by TrendForce. Intel announced its Chengdu plant in August 2003 as a semiconductor chip packaging and testing facility in the Chengdu Hi-Tech West Zone. The first phase began in February 2004 with the construction of a chipset factory, which was completed and put into production by the end of 2005. The second phase commenced in August 2005 and was completed in October 2006. By 2007, the packaging and testing facility was fully operational, handling Intel's most advanced processors.
Since its launch in 2003, Intel's Chengdu plant has handled over half of the packaging and testing for Intel's laptop processors. Even with rising US-China tensions, China remains Intel's biggest market making up 27 percent of its total income last year. The announced expansion will increase the packaging and testing ability of server chips and will add a new "customer solutions center." This center aims to make the supply chain more effective, give more support to Chinese customers, and speed up response times. Intel's Chengdu site plays a key role in the company's global supply chain, benefiting from the area's "favorable" business climate, CEO Patrick Gelsinger said during his visit last year.
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TrendForce
Since its launch in 2003, Intel's Chengdu plant has handled over half of the packaging and testing for Intel's laptop processors. Even with rising US-China tensions, China remains Intel's biggest market making up 27 percent of its total income last year. The announced expansion will increase the packaging and testing ability of server chips and will add a new "customer solutions center." This center aims to make the supply chain more effective, give more support to Chinese customers, and speed up response times. Intel's Chengdu site plays a key role in the company's global supply chain, benefiting from the area's "favorable" business climate, CEO Patrick Gelsinger said during his visit last year.
22 Comments on Intel Expands Chengdu Plant With $300 Million Investment
This is code for exploiting cheap labor and people, while taking advantage of lax or non-existent environmental regulations
27% of Intel’s revenue comes from China. Half of Intel’s laptop chips are packaged in China.
You’re absolutely right 27% of revenue doesn’t justify over half of the products. I guess that’s why far less than half of Intels products are packaged in China, right?
Or did you think the only thing Intel makes is laptop chips?Thank you for reading the article before commenting. Sad that the first six people to post didn’t.Another person that didn’t read.
Test and package. Not silicon manufacturing.
Am I expecting too much of people??