Now Fab 42 is humming right along on the company's next-gen products, and just as we predicted four years ago it's using Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography, or EUV.

Intel reportedly announced that its Fab 42 plant has been halted and will not open up anytime soon. This is the same plant, based in Arizona, which In. Wednesday, July 2 2025 .

Intel wants to roll out a 7nm manufacturing process at its Fab 42 facility, ... First started in 2011, Fab 42 was completed later in 2013 but has sat empty since then.

Instead, Fab 42 will be brought online at the 7nm node, and to be online within 3-4 years. Intel expects to create approximately 3,000 jobs directly, with a 10,000-job impact on Arizona itself.

Clearly this is a radical (some might say desperate) move, but Intel is one of the few IC manufacturers with the resources to initiate such drastic action. Now consider Intel’s plentiful wafer fab ...

Intel first began work on Fab 42 in 2011, but never completed it after slow sales led the company to lay off 5,000 people company-wide in 2014. Crews are now working to finish construction and ...

Intel announced in January that it was delaying the opening of its much maligned Fab 42. When Intel first announced Fab 42 in 2011, the PC market was still growing. The empty building appears to ...

Intel has been forced to shelve plans to open Fab 42 in Chandler, Arizona. The fab was supposed to launch full scale production this year, but Intel has confirmed that it will remain closed “for ...

In 2011 the chip maker announced plans to spend $5 billion on the new Fab 42 chip manufacturing facility Intel has put on hold a new chip manufacturing facility at its site in Chandler, Arizona ...

Intel CEO Bob Swan wrote a piece about the anniversary and opening up of Fab 42 on AZ Central. He recounted how Intel's first silicon wafers came off its Fab 6 plant in Chandler, Arizona back in 1980.