“We are looking to reduce costs and increase efficiencies through multiple initiatives. This includes exploring more cost-effective real estate options to continue our data center R&D work in Oregon that is already in progress,” Intel spokesperson Penelope Bruce told Oregon Live. The spokesperson said the company will still find a way to do this research, and that it just won’t be at its Hillsboro facility, which is 20 miles from Portland.
This is part of a massive $3 billion in spending cuts for the company for 2023. Intel, like the rest of the industry, has seen falling revenues over the past year with no sign of it letting up any time soon. Its sales fell between 16 and 20 percent year-over-year from 2021 to 2022.
One of the hallmark technologies Intel was looking to build at the center was a massive liquid immersion cooling system for data centers. Though this form of cooling technology has been around for ages, it’s rarely been built at the scale needed for a data center. Intel was reportedly looking at building what The Register calls an “open reference design” other companies could use. With its new 4th gen “Sapphire Rapids” CPUs sucking up 350W, such elaborate cooling could be useful at some point in the future. The center would have been a so-called “tech showroom” for Intel to show off innovative technologies to its partners.
For now, it remains to be seen when or where Intel will build such a facility. One factor that might impede its future plans is inflation. The Register notes that the cost of the planned expansion at its Arizona fab has already increased 50% compared with prices a year ago. We wouldn’t be surprised if it just mothballed the idea permanently. Gelsinger has said it plans to reduce spending by $10 billion annually by 2025. That’s going to require some painful decisions.
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