Intel is now mass producing its 45 nanometer architecture Penryn processors at a new, state-of-the-art facility in Arizona, and it expects to have the new chips on the market in about two weeks. The company spent $3 billion to build the new “Fab 32” processor foundry in Chandler, Ariz., its first high-volume facility capable of creating chips based on 45 nm transistors. Fab 32 is the company’s sixth 300 mm wafer chip factory. Intel first produced 45 nm transistor-based processors, on a trial basis, in January at its Oregon development center called “D1D.”
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Intel Opens Clean, Green Fab for New Penryn Chips
Posted by: Fred J. Aun October 26, 2007 10:32 AMIntel is now mass producing its 45 nanometer architecture Penryn processors at a new, state-of-the-art facility in Arizona, and it expects to have the new chips on the market in about two weeks. The company spent $3 billion to build the new “Fab 32” processor foundry in Chandler, Ariz., its first high-volume facility capable of creating chips based on 45 nm transistors. Fab 32 is the company’s sixth 300 mm wafer chip factory. Intel first produced 45 nm transistor-based processors, on a trial basis, in January at its Oregon development center called “D1D.”