Intel Manufacturing Facilities Run 365 Days a Year

[StrayKAT]

The US is not losing its technological and financial advantage "because of China". The US is losing its technological and financial advantage "because US Corporate Executives have decided they do not want build anything in this or any other country that pays a living wage." Building here means lower year end bonuses and stock options.

Don't get me wrong. I blame them first. China is just shorthand for a whole slew of issues of people basically just competing for their own profitability without any regard to the integrity of a system (let alone a land/nation that they come from). Globalism itself is the real enemy.

 

[sergionography]

At first glance I read this as "Intel Malfunctioning Facilities Run 365 Days a Year" lol. I was like huh?

 

[hat]

At first glance I read this as "Intel Malfunctioning Facilities Run 365 Days a Year" lol. I was like huh?

That would explain the supply problems...

ba-dum tiss

 

[xenocide]

Most of these facilities run 24/7 365. On holidays throughput is lower, and at some sites it's a skeleton crew just making sure the place doesn't burn down on Christmas, but the industry standard is to operate around the clock.

 

[Bones]

while certainly they are not working 24 hours a day, there is gotta be a hiccup that need to be addressed immediately at factory
when PIC is not on his shift, his colleague will call him to fix some issues.

I am not talking Intel as company, but its employees.

While I can't speak for Intel itself on this I do know as fact in some places it's true, even going beyond 24 hours.
The company I used to work for at one time had to send some corporate people over to a plant over there to MAKE the bosses let the workers go home.... Literally.

The people had been working for several days straight and their bosses would not let them leave to go home.
When corporate learned about this going on they stepped in and clarified what a work shift was to the Chinese managers of that plant.

Now - I don't know how they learned about it but once it was known corporate didn't waste any time getting that sorted and I believe a few managers may have been allowed to go home themselves involuntarily.

Got this from some of the higher-up's where I was working, those being in postions to know stuff like this going on.

 

[cdawall]

If they did that the price of your Intel processors would skyrocket. The infrastructure is already in China, safety rules are significantly more lax, and labour is a hell of a lot cheaper. People are moaning about the price of Intel processors now, if they brought manufacturing to the US things would be far, far more expensive.

Would they really? I can't imagine it's substantially cheaper to produce amd chips yet we have a plant for them stateside.

 

[Aquinus]

If they did that the price of your Intel processors would skyrocket. The infrastructure is already in China, safety rules are significantly more lax, and labour is a hell of a lot cheaper. People are moaning about the price of Intel processors now, if they brought manufacturing to the US things would be far, far more expensive.

Don't underestimate the power of automation.

 

[R-T-B]

Don't underestimate the power of automation.

The humans are dead! Praise Robulon!

Oh sorry, jumped the gun a bit...