Where chips are actually made.
Every publicly announced or operating fabrication and advanced packaging site the record supports, plotted at its own coordinates. Status is what is reported now, not what was announced. A project that was cancelled stays on the map, marked as such. Cloud regions can be laid over the same map, because compute and fabrication compete for the same grid.
Where they are
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By country
Site counts, and announced investment where a public figure exists.
Sites per country
Announced investment per country
When they started producing
First output year, where the operator has published one.
Every site
Each row links to the public source it was taken from. Where a publisher has stated a capacity for a site, the date of that statement links to it in full.
What was said about the date, and when
Every fab site for which this record holds a published production year, with every earlier version kept beside the current one. This is the same thing the record does with forecasts, applied to buildings.
6 sites with a schedule on the record, 11 published statements between them: 4 restated at least once, 2 stated a year and have not restated it. Every other site on this page carries one year or none, which means this record has found one statement or none, not that the date never moved.
Restated at least once
Intel · Ohio One campus
New Albany, Ohio, US · paused · production year as published, oldest first: 2025 → 2030
| When it was published | Production year stated | Published by | What was published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-21 the publisher dated it | 2025 | the operator | “Construction is expected to begin late in 2022. Production is expected to come online in 2025” Intel Announces Next US Site with Landmark Investment in Ohio |
| 2025-02-28 the publisher dated it | 2030 | the operator | “complete construction of Mod 1 in 2030 and begin operations between 2030 and 2031” Ohio One Construction Timeline Update The same update states Mod 2 completes construction in 2031 and begins operations in 2032. This record tracks the first module. |
Intel · Silicon Junction (planned)
Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, DE · cancelled · production year as published, oldest first: 2027 → withdrawn
| When it was published | Production year stated | Published by | What was published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-15 the publisher dated it | 2027 | the operator | “Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 2023, with production coming online at the end of 2027.” Intel Announces Initial Investment of More Than €33 Billion for Semiconductor R&D and Manufacturing in EU |
| 2025-07-24 the publisher dated it | withdrawn | the operator, filed with the SEC | “Intel will no longer move forward with planned projects in Germany and Poland.” Intel Q2 2025 earnings release (Form 8-K exhibit) Intel had said on 16 September 2024 that it would pause the Germany and Poland projects by approximately two years. That statement named no year, so it is not a point in this sequence. |
Samsung · Taylor fab
Taylor, Texas, US · construction · production year as published, oldest first: 2024 → 2027
| When it was published | Production year stated | Published by | What was published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-23 the publisher dated it | 2024 | the operator | “Groundbreaking will be in the first half of 2022 with the target of having the facility operational in the second half of 2024.” Samsung Electronics Announces New Advanced Semiconductor Fab Site in Taylor, Texas |
| 2026-03-03 the publisher dated it | 2027 | trendforce.com | “the start of full-scale production at Samsung's Texas facility is now expected to slip to early 2027” Delay at Samsung's Taylor Reportedly Slips Mass Production to 2027, Raising Concerns for Tesla - TrendForce TrendForce attributes the figure to Korea JoongAng Daily. Samsung is reported in the same item as saying mass-production preparations complete by the end of 2026. Samsung has published no dated statement of its own that this record has found. |
TSMC · Fab 21 Phase 2
North Phoenix, Arizona, US · construction · production year as published, oldest first: 2026 → 2028 → 2027
| When it was published | Production year stated | Published by | What was published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-12-06 the publisher dated it | 2026 | the operator, filed with the SEC | “TSMC has also started the construction of a second fab which is scheduled to begin production of 3nm process technology in 2026” TSMC Announces Updates for TSMC Arizona (Form 6-K) |
| 2024-04-08 the publisher dated it | 2028 | the operator | “The second fab will produce the world's most advanced 2nm process technology with next-generation nanosheet transistors in addition to the previously announced 3nm technology, with production beginning in 2028.” TSMC Arizona and U.S. Department of Commerce Announce up to US$6.6 Billion in Proposed CHIPS Act Direct Funding, the Company Plans Third Leading-Edge Fab in Phoenix |
| 2026-08-23 first seen undated page, first read by this record | 2027 | the operator | “Volume production on N3 process technology targeted for the second-half of 2027.” TSMC Arizona TSMC's own Arizona page carries no publication date, so this record cannot say when the target moved from 2028 to 2027, only when it first read it. |
Stated once, and not restated since
Here for the same reason the others are. A page showing only the dates that moved would teach a reader that they always move, which is a conclusion this record would be drawing by choosing what to show.
ESMC (TSMC / Bosch / Infineon / NXP joint venture) · ESMC fab
Dresden, Saxony, DE · construction · production year as published, oldest first: 2027
| When it was published | Production year stated | Published by | What was published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-08 the publisher dated it | 2027 | the operator | “ESMC aims to begin construction of the fab in the second half of 2024 with production targeted to begin by the end of 2027.” TSMC, Bosch, Infineon, and NXP Establish Joint Venture to Bring Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing to Europe |
Rapidus · IIM-1
Chitose, Hokkaido, JP · construction · production year as published, oldest first: 2027
| When it was published | Production year stated | Published by | What was published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-23 first seen undated page, first read by this record | 2027 | the operator | “IIM handles the development and mass production of world-leading logic semiconductors using the 2nm GAA process.” IIM | Semiconductor R&D and Manufacturing Hub | Rapidus Corporation Rapidus's own IIM page carries no publication date. The 2027 mass-production year is the one Rapidus has stated publicly since the pilot line opened in April 2025; this record has found no dated Rapidus page carrying it, so the date here is only when this record read the page. |
The arrows are the reader's to interpret. This record does not say a project is late, on time or in trouble: it says what was published and when, and both numbers are on the page.
A row marked first seen comes from a publisher's page that carries no date. The statement is the publisher's; the date is only when this record read it, and the record cannot say when the publisher changed it. A row marked withdrawn is a publisher taking a date back without naming a new one, and the site then carries no production year at all rather than keeping the old one standing.
Seven rows on this page were two descriptions of one building. They were ruled on, the losing row was deleted and the count on this page fell by seven. Every ruling is published, with what it turned on and an invitation to overturn it.