Intel is building a $20 billion computer chip facility in Ohio amid a global shortage

Photo caption: Intel Corp. is planning to invest more than $20 billion in two computer chip plants in central Ohio to help address a global semiconductor shortage. Photo credit: Richard Drew / AP. Article by The Associated Press. NPR – January 21, 2022.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Intel will invest $20 billion in a new computer chip facility in Ohio amid a global shortage of microprocessors used in everything from phones and cars to video games. After years of heavy reliance on Asia for the production of computer chips, vulnerability to shortages of the crucial components was exposed in the U.S. and Europe as they began to emerge economically from the pandemic. […]

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