Intel today officially inaugurated the opening of Fab 28, a 45-nanometer semiconductor fabrication facility that is the latest in a series of important investments for the company's increasingly valued Israeli operations.

Fab 28 is Intel's seventh 300mm wafer factory and its third factory to produce 45nm chips. It is, however, the firm’s first 45nm fab outside the US. Spanning a whopping 283 dunams (283000 metres squared) in total and with 20,000 square metres of clean room space, fab 28 certainly puts Israel on the fab map in a big way. Fassberg acknowledged, “this is a huge project on the scale never before seen in this country. We have to prove that the trust invested in us by Intel worldwide was justified.”

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