Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days

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Intel is trucking a 916,000-pound 'Super Load' across Ohio to its new fab, spawning road closures over nine days
tomshardware.com

Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field. The immense scale of the cold box necessitates a transit process that moves at a "parade pace" of 5-10 miles per hour. Intel is taking over southern Ohio's roads for the next several weeks and months as it builds its new Ohio One Campus, a $28 billion project to create a 1,000-acre campus with two chip factories and room for more. Calling it the new "Silicon Heartland," the project will be the first leading-edge semiconductor fab in the American Midwest, and once operational, will get to work on the "Angstrom era" of Intel processes, 20A and beyond.

I don't know why, but I've never thought of the transport logistics involved in building a semiconductor fabrication plant.

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Or, historically, when you’re building a new factory, the first thing you do is build a rail connection right next to it

A rail line that can handle a 280 foot piece of cargo would be heaven for high speed adoption with how straight it would have to be.