Another story from The Register:
Chipzilla has decided to take another run at the mobile chip market, announcing plans to spin as much as US$1.6 billion in the direction of its Chengdu plant in China to achieve its aims.
The money will go towards upgrade a decade-old facility to try to assert its 900-pound-gorilla status in the mobile silicon business, for too long a gap in Intel's strategy.
Details of Intel's intent are fairly sketchy, but the company told China Daily the 2,500-plus employee assembly test site is an important deployment particularly for its “mobility business in the tablet, smartphone, Internet of Things and wearable segments”.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 09 2014, @08:54AM
You always see Hollywood types making action movies in abandoned factories. Those Americans sure are obsessed with outsourcing manufacturing as they watch their empire decline into irrelevance. USA #2, for shit!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 09 2014, @03:58PM
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Tuesday December 09 2014, @04:07PM
Keep in mind that this is the backend - packaging the silicon (attach it to a ball grid array or other for mobile).
While very important, the real IP is the fabricating of silicon, and that is not making its way to China soon for Intel (the Dalian foundry is a couple process nodes behind at 65 nm).
I am curious for more details. Intel has a large backend facility in Vietnam that is mostly empty, so this type of investment feels odd. However Intel has been making some strange investments in recent years thanks to the reduced demand for x86, probably best seen in the large cleanroom in Chandler AZ sitting empty for a few years.