Intel celebrated the grand opening of the latest expansion of D1X, its leading-edge factory in Hillsboro, Ore. In honor of the site’s heritage of innovation, Intel announced a new name for the nearly 500-acre campus: Gordon Moore Park at Ronler Acres. The new name recognizes the site’s unique contributions to driving Moore’s Law, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction that has guided innovation in the semiconductor industry for more than 50 years.
“Since its founding, Intel has been devoted to relentlessly advancing Moore’s Law. This new factory space will bolster our ability to deliver the accelerated process roadmap required to support our bold IDM 2.0 strategy. Oregon is the longtime heart of our global semiconductor R&D, and I can think of no better way to honor Gordon Moore’s legacy than by bestowing his name on this campus, which, like him, has had such a tremendous role in advancing our industry,” said Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO.
Gordon Moore Park is the headquarters of Intel’s global Technology Development organization, which is responsible for advancing Moore’s Law by creating new transistor architectures, wafer processes and packaging technologies that underpin the company’s product roadmap and provide the foundation for applications ranging from personal computers to cloud infrastructure to 5G networks. The team of approximately 10,000 employees, primarily based in Hillsboro, is widely recognized as one of the world’s preeminent silicon process engineering organizations.
During the campus’s 25-year history, engineers and scientists there have continually faced – then overcome – the challenges posed by physics when the features on a chip shrink to the size of atoms. With inventions like high-k metal gate technology, tri-gate 3D transistors and strained silicon, Intel has consistently delivered foundational process innovations to maintain pace with Moore’s Law.
With “Mod3” – a more than $3 billion investment to expand D1X – Intel engineers now have an additional 270,000 square feet of clean room space to develop next-generation silicon process technologies.
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