Inside An Intel Chip Fab: One Of The Cleanest Conference Rooms On Earth
March 28 2018 - 2:19PM
Business Wire
No dust mops needed here. The inside of a chip factory is
cleaner than about any other place you can visit on Earth. To avoid
contaminating the chip-making process, the air in an Intel fab
clean room is filtered to 1,000 times fewer airborne particles than
a sterile hospital operating room.
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Intel operations leaders gather for the
daily "8:20" – a morning huddle inside Fab D1X to ensure that the
Hillsboro, Oregon, chip factory is running smoothly. Up to 30
people may squeeze into this room to confer on factory tool status,
parts availability, operating forecasts, experts who may be needed
or other urgent issues. The fab – the size of four football fields
– runs 24/7/365. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
The “Team Room” inside Intel’s Fab D1X in Hillsboro, Oregon, is
unique.
It’s the sole conference room inside this entire
multibillion-dollar factory. Though the fab sprawls over four
football fields, every square foot is supremely expensive and
valuable. That’s why Intel designed leading-edge Fab D1X with one
and only room like this.
Anything entering the fab – including the Fab D1X Team Room –
must be thoroughly scrubbed or swabbed. Human skin and hair must be
almost entirely covered. Workers wear head-to-toe bunny suits,
protective glasses, two pairs of gloves, booties, hoods, and face
masks. Workers often recognize one another by their build or their
gait, not their face.
In the D1X Team Room, anything that could shed particulates is
verboten. No makeup, for example. Common supplies like paper and
pencils are off-limits too – they both can create micro-dust. Only
ink pens and special fab-approved synthetic paper are allowed in.
This is the first photo inside the D1X Team Room ever shared
externally. See more images from Intel’s
fabs: Intel Manufacturing Images
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