[photopress:Intel_China.jpg,full,alignright]A plan by the world’s largest computer chip manufacturer, Intel, to build a wafer fabrication plant (known as a fab) in Dalian, in Liaoning Province, has been approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
The production facility, with a designed monthly capacity of 52,000 wafers, semiconductors on which numerous integrated circuits are manufactured, will cost US$2.5 billion. Building fabs requires serious money which is why, in the chip game, there are so few players.
Intel currently operates wafer packaging and test facilities in Shanghai and Chengdu.
Source: China View