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Get Inside an Intel 45nm Chip Factory

Intel will launch its first 45nm chips made with reinvented transistors that use a new Hafnium-based high-k metal gate recipe. Take a look inside Intel's 45nm factories where these chips get made. See the many layers or floors of the factory and the automated shuttles that take the wafers from one step to another to ultimately produce millions of Intel's 45nm chips. These buildings are some of the cleanest in the world and so large that 17 football fields can fit inside!

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Inside Intel's D1D fab -- through the looking glass

Silicon wafers are loaded into various chip-making tools -- some of which cost more than $10 million each -- through a complex routing system that runs on mechanized tracks above the tools. D1D uses what's known as a "ballroom" design, meaning the clean room floor is wide open, lacking walls within the facility where dirt can gather, Horwath said. The air within the clean room is constantly refreshed and maintained at a cleanliness level known as Class 10, Horwath said. The air is even cleaner within the stackers, which transport silicon wafers from tool to tool. That air is kept at Class 1 status, meaning only three particles of dirt measuring 0.3 microns in size are allowed within a cubic foot of air.

Intel To Build 300mm Wafer Fabrication Facility In China

Intel Corporation today announced plans to build a 300-millimeter (mm) wafer fabrication facility (fab) in the coastal Northeast China city of Dalian in Liaoning Province. The $2.5 billion investment for the factory designated Fab 68 will become Intel's first wafer fab in Asia and adds significant investment to Intel's existing operations in China.

Intel, India's NIIT team on multicore training

Intel has teamed with Indian training company NIIT to develop a global multicore processor technology training curriculum. NIIT is the only training company with which Intel is currently partnering on a global basis. The multicore training program will be delivered by NIIT and its subsidiary Element K Corp. in Rochester, New York.

Intel sets out to work with Tudou to further video tech

Intel Corp signed a memorandum yesterday with China's YouTube-like site Tudou.com to explore video sharing technologies on wireless network and develop video applications for mobile devices.