President Joe Biden stands with Patrick Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)AP
Intel announced plans Thursday to build as many as eight factories on a single site in Ohio, a “mega fab” that CEO Pat Gelsinger said may someday be “the largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet.”
Spending $20 billion in Ohio at the outset, and as much as $100 billion over the next decade, Intel is building its new factory campus from scratch on farmland near Columbus. It’s positioning the new complex to be the company’s main manufacturing center.
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