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A $700 million research and development facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, is the latest project on Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's chopping block. The x86 giant announced the 200,000-square-foot mega-fab last spring. Intel envisioned the site — located 20 miles west of Portland — as a research and development center where the chipmaker …

  1. Ace2 Silver badge

    “Intel will complete construction of a parking garage on the site, according to Israeli publication Globes.”

    Well, at least we get that out of the deal!

    1. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

      You're assuming it's compatible with non Intel-made cars

  2. steamnut

    Backtracking?

    Next, I predict will be retraction the so-called EU chip foundry project. The chip industry has just seen what a bad knee jerk reaction they made.

    Those of us with grey beards will be tut tutting as we have seen it all before. Remember the 4K DRAM crisis to which the UK Government created the funds for Inmos. By the time the chips were ready the world had moved on to 16k chips.

  3. Potemkine! Silver badge

    During the last 5 years, Intel's dividends increased by around 33% (inflation was around 21% in the US for the same period) . Here goes Intel's money. Shareholders are cajoled, workers are despised.

  4. ColonelClaw

    Anyone ever worked with fully-immersed kit? What happens when it goes wrong? Do you have to retrieve the bits and let it all dry out? Or get into a rubber suit and dive in?

    Seems awfully messy to me

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