In brief: Intel is gear up to announce plans to build a $20 billion scrap manufacturing complex in New Albany, on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, equally the company looks to lessen US reliance on foreign chipmakers while putting long-term strategies in place to combat the chip shortage.

The Columbus site, part of Intel'south IDM two.0 strategy, will initially consist of ii chip factories on the ane,000-acre plot and directly employ 3,000 people. The New York Times writes that it volition also create additional jobs in construction and nearby businesses.

Intel said construction on the site would brainstorm this twelvemonth, and the found should be operational by 2025. The visitor has the choice to expand to 2,000 acres and up to eight fabs. "Our expectation is that this becomes the largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet," Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told Time. "Nosotros helped to establish the Silicon Valley," he said. "Now we're going to do the Silicon Heartland."

Gelsinger, who recently proclaimed AMD "is in the rearview mirror" following Alder Lake's release, has long warned confronting relying too much on Taiwanese flake manufacturing (TSMC, specifically) in the face of increasing aggression from China in the region. "Beijing sent 27 warplanes to Taiwan'due south air defense identification zone [...] Does that brand yous feel more comfortable or less?" he said in December. The CEO has also called for the Usa government to spend the $52 billion information technology has prepare bated for semiconductor funding exclusively on domestic companies.

Intel plans to spend $25 billion to $28 billion on bit manufacturing in 2022 following a huge spending spree. The company broke ground on 2 advanced chip fabs in Arizona in September; it has invested $vii billion in a new manufacturing center in Malaysia; will invest $3.5 billion in New Mexico operations; and its $vii billion Fab 34 production facility in Republic of ireland got its first equipment final week.

TSMC, which recently reported tape profits, said information technology would spend $44 billion on upgrading capacity in 2022, more than than Intel. The Taiwanese firm has reportedly raised customer quotes for its 7nm and 5nm processes for customers, which could see CPU and GPU prices ascension, though Intel should be least affected given the company has its own fabs.

Intel confirmed the Ohio establish plans to Time ahead of its official proclamation via a webcast taking identify at 11:xxx am PST today (Friday, January 21).