Chip fab is no small fry

By Sylvie Barak on Jul 2, 2008 3:42PM

Intel's newly inaugurated Fab 28 may be the place where the firm’s smallest 45nm chips are produced, but there is nothing very small about the fab itself.

Costing over US$3.5 billion and sitting on 283 dunams of land (about 70- acres), the site boasts 20,000 square meters of clean rooms, 770,000 metres of cable (1.7 times the entire length of the state of Israel), 350 tons of additional cables and accessories and 45,000 light fixtures producing ...

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