Intel puts Vietnam and Ireland plants to build processors to address shortage
To address the processor shortage, Intel has turned its plants in Vietnam and Ireland to make chips.
Intel's Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, Coffee Lake Refresh, Skylake-X, Skylake-X Refresh and Xeon processor families are based on the 14nm manufacturing process and are a brutal number of processors on the market for all kinds of needs. and this causes that the company's plants are saturated and cannot meet the strong demand. This prompted Intel to assign the Vietnam factory, usually for manufacturing tests, to carry out processor manufacturing and stop manufacturing laboratory solutions.
Vietnam and Ireland are Intel's solutions to reduce congestion at its plants.
It seems that these plants will be in charge of manufacturing the Core i9 9900K, Core i7 9800K and Core i5 9600K processors. This is possible thanks to the fact that all its factories work as a single entity, which allows the company to move production from one factory to another without major problems, according to need and haste. This allows the development of more agile production ramps that improve the availability of products in the market and also provide more quality.
Intel at the beginning of the year invested a total of 16.000 million dollars to increase the volume while the industry suffers a shortage of supply, which according to the company would be given by an increase in demand, rather than a shortage of supply with origin in the company itself.
As a reinforcement, the Leixlip plant in Ireland, which is the smallest, has been added to production. Irish media The Independent, Leixlip's Fab 24 has received an injection of 1.000 billion dollars for the manufacture of 14nm ++ processors for the Coffee Lake and Coffee Lake Refresh families.
It was at the end of summer when the problem started and the company is going out of its way to solve the problem as soon as possible and return to normal and closer to the Christmas period where a large amount of technology is sold. If they don't supply the market well and prices remain high, AMD can get a good catch with AMD Ryzen networks.
Source: TPU
