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Fab 8 was the first production division of Intel, established outside the USA in 1985. Fab 8 is a relatively small plant — both in terms of area (Fab 8 cleanroom area was just 4500 m2 as well as employees (about 500 people). Fab 8 was a consolidating plant — it manufactured all legacy products from Intel. It offers six process technologies (see the table), which is very difficult in technological terms. Hence a wide product line — over 100 products, manufactured in small quantities.
Process technology | Element size, micron | Number of metal layers | Number of poly-Si layers | Voltage |
P601.2 | 0.4, flash 1.0, periphery | 3 | 2 | 5V, 12V vpp |
P652 | 0.6 | 4 | 2 | 3.3V |
P653 | 0.6 | 4 | 1 | 3.3V |
P650 | 0.8 | 2 | 1 | 5V |
P648 | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 5V |
P629 | 1.0 | 2 | 2 | 5V, 12V vpp |