It doesn't look like much now, but eventually this site will hold an Intel wafer fabrication plant . This Intel employee is holding a 300-millimeter wafer, the material from which individual chips are cut. In late March (when these pictures were taken), the company announced plans to spend $2.5 billion to build the facility.
That expenditure is just one sign of how important China is to the chipmaker. This week, the company is
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