This is Ohio One, a future “mega fab”—or factory—being built by Intel Corp. The company has committed $28 billion to build a fab that, if all goes well, will be able to credibly compete for contracts to manufacture state-of-the-art chips used in smartphones and in the training of next-generation artificial intelligence algorithms. Ohio One, says Chief Executive Officer Patrick Gelsinger, could eventually be the biggest chip factory on Earth. Not to be grandiose or anything, he adds, but it’s part of a strategy that will also stave off America’s economic decline, because chips are essential to almost every manufactured good. “I just view this as existential to our economy, to our national security,” Gelsinger says at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California. “I don’t view failure as an option.”
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