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Intel brings 3nm production to Europe in 2025

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siliconbruh999

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Intel is shifting high volume production of 3nm chips to Europe at its Fab34 in Ireland later this year.

Intel 3 is the company’s second EUV lithography node with an 18% performance-per-watt improvement over Intel 4. The process is offered to foundry customers and was in high-volume manufacturing in Oregon during 2024, with high-volume manufacturing shifted to Leixlip in Ireland for 2025, it said in its annual report. This is the first confirmation of 3nm production after ramping up the first generation EUV process.

The Xeon 6 Scalable server processor offerings are built on this technology.

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Intel brings 3nm production to Europe in 2025

Intel is shifting high volume production of 3nm chips to Europe for the first time at its Fab34 in Ireland later this year.
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One of the issues with the semiconductor supply chain has been the lack of leading edge process technology in Europe. The availability of the Intel 3 process as part of Intel Foundry Services could be a key capability for the struggling company.

Foundry unit haunts tepid 2024 results

The company has been looking at investors to help fund the expansion, and last year sold the older half of the fab to equity fund Apollo.

Intel 4, 3 and 18A are being offered to foundry customers, as well as the established 7nm and 16nm processes. The company is also working with UMC on a 12nm foundry process.

“We expect to commence high-volume manufacturing of Panther Lake, our new client family of products and our first processors on Intel 18A in 2025,” it said. This will be built in Arizona.

“Intel 14A, our third advanced process technology offering to external customers, is in active development with performance-per-watt and density scaling improvements over Intel 18A,” it said, and this is expected in 2026.

However the fab planned for Madgeburg, Germany, is still on hold, as is the assembly plant planned for Poland.

CEO Lip-tan Bu took over at the company last month after Pat Gelsinger was ousted in 2024.
 
Artificer60 said:
??? Intel took a writedown for the cost of ramping the Ireland fab a couple of quarters ago. Intel 3 should already be ramped at F34.
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Now they didn't, they took write downs on DUV only process node equipment (AKA Intel 7 since everything else is sunset or effectively sunset). 4Q ago they did say Intel 4 cost was higher than expected as they increased Fab34 ramp rate and wound down the Intel 4 line in Oregon faster then expected.
siliconbruh999 said:
Yeah that's what I thought Intel 3 should be in Ireland last year. I was more confused reading this so I posted here to clear my doubts looked like I put other people to doubts as well 😅.
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While equipment should be mostly similar to i4, it should still be a whole qualification process for Fab34 to run Intel 3 since the process isn't identical.
 
siliconbruh999 said:
Yeah that's what I thought Intel 3 should be in Ireland last year. I was more confused reading this so I posted here to clear my doubts looked like I put other people to doubts as well 😅.
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Intel announced in August 2024 during its Q2 2024 earnings conference that it was accelerating the Intel 3 and 4 move, from Oregon to Ireland. Does this news mean Intel finally completed the move and started the high volume production?
 
Fred Chen said:
Odd time to move manufacturing outside of the United States, to Europe no less.

Also read that energy costs were much higher in Ireland.
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What would the alternative be? Let Ireland sit idle, have D1 run Intel 3 until the end of time, and then have insufficient floor space to build a solid development/pilot line so future nodes can be developed? BK and BS tried that "strategy" and the consequences are shown clear as day on Intel's balance sheet, and prior process delays...
 
nghanayem said:
What would the alternative be? Let Ireland sit idle, have D1 run Intel 3 until the end of time, and then have insufficient floor space to build a solid development/pilot line so future nodes can be developed? BK and BS tried that "strategy" and the consequences are shown clear as day on Intel's balance sheet, and prior process delays...
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Not saying they shouldn't have done it, just the timing is politically not optimum. They hopefully are not rushed this time as with the Meteor Lake. Did Ireland ever give the energy subsidy?
 
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