Intel Corp. 9月9日在20亿美元的项目to build two semiconductor chip manufacturing plants in central Ohio. Company leaders and government officials praised the project as an example of investments to boost domestic chip production after decades of U.S. market share declines.

The project will support about 7,000 construction jobs, said Keyvan Esfarjani, Intel’s senior vice president and general manager of manufacturing, supply chain and operations. In addition to work on the New Albany, Ohio, site itself, the project has already spurred “significant infrastructure” work in the surrounding area, he added.

Esfarjani说，这两个正在建造的工厂“将需要[尽可能多的]混凝土[]建造世界上两座最高的建筑物……以及足够的结构钢来建造八个埃菲尔塔。”

Early excavation work began earlier this summer, with a team led byGilbane Building Co.这个团队also includes McDaniel’s Construction Corp., Northstar Contracting Inc. and GTSA Construction Consulting.

Intel says the 1,000-acre “mega-site” northeast of Columbus has room for as many as eight plants, known as “fabs.” The company estimates it would require a $100-billion investment to fully build and equip those plants.

President Joe Biden and various lawmakers attended Intel’s groundbreaking ceremony. In August, Biden signed the Chips and Science Act, which includes about $39 billion to support chip plant construction. He touted Intel’s project as one of many that would help increase U.S.-based production of semiconductor chips, which are used in a wide variety of goods. He noted that the U.S. share of chip production has slipped from more than 30% in the early 1990s to about 12%, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.

拜登说：“正如我们在大流行期间看到的那样，当这些筹码关闭的工厂停止了，不仅在这里，而且在世界各地都增加了家庭和每个人的成本。”18luck.cub

Intel is not alone in moving to boost domestic semiconductor chip production. Micron Technology Inc. recently announced it would invest $15 billion building a fab in Boise, Idaho, as part of plans to invest $40 billion in manufacturing expansions. GlobalFoundries and Qualcomm extended a long-term semiconductor manufacturing agreement that will keep production in the U.S. that may have otherwise moved overseas. And on the same day as Intel’s groundbreaking, Wolfspeed Inc. selected a site in Chatham County, N.C., to build a $5-billion materials manufacturing facility to produce silicon carbide wafers for semiconductor chips.