BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Update: Intel to build fab for 14-nm chips

Continuing its aggressive fab expansion efforts, Intel Corp. on Friday (Feb. 18) announced plans to invest more than $5 billion to build a new chip manufacturing facility at its site in Chandler, Ariz.

On the other hand, Intel recently obtained a grant from the Israeli government to build a 300-mm fab in that nation.
At 11-nm, it reiterated its concept of a ''complementary'' or mix-and-match strategy, in which 193-nm immersion could work hand-in-hand with EUV or maskless lithography to enable advanced chip designs.

BAD HARDWARE: ? In 1974 in 10 microns Intel produced 4040 processor. Now, in 11 nanometers, its chip could contain 1 million 4040 processors. Seems that in some 40+ years productivity of processor production is improved at that very scale due to two dimensional scaling.