Where Does Intel Make Its Processors And Graphics Cards?

Intel’s production facilities are advanced manufacturing plants where the company makes semiconductor wafers, which are sliced and packaged into individual chips.

Intel’s fab production facilities in the U.S. are located in three locations: Chandler in Arizona (Ocotillo Campus), Rio Rancho (New Mexico Campus), and Hillsboro in Oregon (Ronler Acres campus and Aloha Campus). In addition to these facilities, Intel has three other production sites outside the U.S. located at Leixlip (Ireland), Kiryat Gat, and Jerusalem (both in Israel).

Moving on to the company’s testing and assembly development facilities, Intel has a single facility in the United States, located outside the mainland in San Jose, Costa Rica. Intel has two testing and assembly facilities in China as well, located in Shanghai and Chengdu. Malaysia also hosts two Intel production facilities located in the cities of Kulim and Penang. Another Southeast Asian country that hosts an Intel production facility is Vietnam, where Intel has a campus in Ho Chi Minh City.

In addition to these existing production facilities, Intel is also investing more than $28 billion to construct two new chip factories in Licking County, Ohio.

Traditionally, Intel has not been a player in the discrete graphics card space and limited itself to developing on-board graphics for entry-level and mid-range computers. These entry-level graphics processors were part of the CPU, and because Intel’s older CPUs were fabricated at its facilities, these graphics chips were also made at Intel’s facilities spread across the globe.

In 2021, Intel announced a major shift in its strategy by introducing a lineup of discrete graphics cards under the Intel Arc branding. For these cards, Intel tied up with TSMC to use the latter’s 6nm and 5nm process nodes. These promised better performance and power efficiency than the older 10nm and 7nm process nodes Intel was still dependent on.

All of Intel’s current generation Arc graphics cards, including the Intel Arc B580 and the B570, are, therefore, manufactured at various TSMC facilities spread across Taiwan and the U.S. Neither TSMC nor Intel reveals details of the actual manufacturing sites where these cards are built.

We can expect greater co-operation between Intel and TSMC going forward, too, especially after Intel worked with TSMC for its 14th-gen mobile Meteor Lake processors. These chips use a chiplet design that contains multiple tiles manufactured on different processes by different companies. These 14th-gen mobile CPUs, therefore, are not entirely made by Intel at its facilities, but are dependent on TSMC’s factories as well.