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- Intel to produce new chips at $3 bln plant in Arizona
Date: 26-Oct-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Intel Corp. will start production Thursday of new chips design at a new 3 billion U.S. dollar factory in Arizona, media reports said.
Intel's new facility, with more than 1,000 workers, is so big that more than 17 football fields could fit inside it. Its products will go on sale Nov. 12.
It will be Intel's first plant dedicated to the production of a chip design known as Penryn that has circuits just 45 nanometers wide, compared to the 65 nanometers that is used now.
Penryn uses a transistor that Intel unveiled last year, an advance that was hailed as the biggest breakthrough in four decades to the basic building block of microchips.
Smaller circuits usually translate into higher computing speeds and lower energy consumption, and thus are critical to the fight between Intel and its rival AMD.
Intel is at least six months ahead of AMD in the transition to the new chip-making method.
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