Inside An Intel Chip Fab: One Of The Cleanest Conference Rooms On Earth

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Inside An Intel Chip Fab: One Of The Cleanest Conference Rooms On Earth

No dust mops needed here. The inside of a chip factory is cleaner than about any other place you can visit on Earth. To avoid contaminating the chip-making process, the air in an Intel fab clean room is filtered to 1,000 times fewer airborne particles than a sterile hospital operating room. The “Team Room” inside Intel’s Fab D1X in Hillsboro, Oregon, is unique. It’s the sole conference room inside this entire multibillion-dollar factory. Though the fab sprawls over four football fields, every square foot is supremely expensive and valuable. That’s why Intel designed leading-edge Fab D1X with one and only room like this. Anything entering the fab – including the Fab D1X Team Room – must be thoroughly scrubbed or swabbed. Human skin and hair must be almost entirely covered. Workers wear head-to-toe bunny suits, protective glasses, two pairs of gloves, booties, hoods, and fac...

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