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Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field. The immense scale of the cold box necessitates a transit process that moves at a "parade pace" of 5-10 miles per hour. Intel is taking over southern Ohio's roads for the next several weeks and months as it builds its new Ohio One Campus, a $28 billion project to create a 1,000-acre campus with two chip factories and room for more. Calling it the new "Silicon Heartland," the project will be the first leading-edge semiconductor fab in the American Midwest, and once operational, will get to work on the "Angstrom era" of Intel processes, 20A and beyond.

I don't know why, but I've never thought of the transport logistics involved in building a semiconductor fabrication plant.

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[-] Shihali@sh.itjust.works 110 points 4 months ago

Looks like they put the oversized load on a boat for as long as they could, but have to do the last leg by road.

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 79 points 4 months ago

I mean, everyone has been crying and whinging for years, decades even, that the USA needs to ramp up semiconductor fabrication in case shit goes south in Taiwan. We are finally getting some domestic production power and we're getting outraged by the traffic delays? America will sink itself because of our people's own addiction to comfort and complaining about any slight to that comfort.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

Is this going to raise gas prices!!?!

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Does anything NOT raise gas prices?

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[-] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

The top two things any given American will complain about on a local level.

  1. The terrible condition of their local roads
  2. Roadwork to fix the terrible condition of their local roads.
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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I don't even think this is complaining about mild inconvenience, it's just outrage addiction that has taken over most of the country.

[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

Yep, the fab plant is a little east of Columbus (just south of where I live actually). This is one of like 2 dozen "super loads" that has to make its way from the Ohio River up to the plant. I swear there is a website somewhere that keeps track of when the are coming, the routes they take, and the closures involved but my Google-fu is failing me now.

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

If it makes you feel any better it's probably Google that's failing, not you

[-] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Even before Google stopped working, I'm not sure the results of googling "super load" would have been what you are looking for.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 months ago

Try "super loads AND when they are coming?"

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[-] jaspersgroove@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Look at the bright side, once intel gets this new plant up and running cranking out next-gen chips, Google will be able to fail you even faster!

[-] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

As excited as I am to see my home city actually growing and gaining national attention, I miss the chill cow-town vibes. Traffic is only gonna get worse from here.

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[-] Ibaudia@lemmy.world 66 points 4 months ago

The biggest news here is that semiconductor production is amping up in the states, which is good for national security and reduces reliance on Taiwan.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 19 points 4 months ago

Slightly less good for the people of Taiwan.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

Ehhh. We are really just hedging our bets. As I understand it we are focusing on production of the older generations of chips. That frees up Taiwan to focus on the bleeding edge chips. Losing Taiwan would still be a massive blow to the global economy.

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[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks, Biden

The bigger news here is something from his administration is coming to fruition that creates American jobs and reduces foreign dependency on a major commodity for both civilian and military applications.

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[-] asbestos@lemmy.world 62 points 4 months ago

And not a single photo? The thing in the main photo aint it

[-] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Not sure if this image from the DOT is actually of this specific shipment because I found this image from April when they moved the eighth part and it's less that half the weight. Here's a two minute video of it.

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[-] Fungah@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

But how many football fields does it weigh?

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 35 points 4 months ago

About 4,000 washing machines.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Well a football field is 57,600 sq ft, and a cubic foot of dirt weighs between 110-140 lbs depending on composition. That means that an average football field at a depth of one foot weighs around 6,912,000 lbs.

This thing weighs 916,000 lbs. So it is 0.1325231481 football fields.

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[-] Kanzar@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago

They did something similar with some transformers here in Australia, and unfortunately there were some possibly associated traffic incidents where people might have not been going the right speed and got rear-ended. One man died, even.

Please avoid the route, even when it is pulled over to "rest", as your fellow motorists may not be able to resist rubbernecking.

[-] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 4 months ago

Why didn't the transformers just drive themselves? Or better yet turn into airplanes?

/s

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

This is why ultrasized cargo airships need to be a thing. Just sling that bad boy underneath a kilometre long hydrogen dirigible and fly it to its destination.

[-] mlc894@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago

Or, historically, when you’re building a new factory, the first thing you do is build a rail connection right next to it

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

This is also good, but, on the other hand, airships are awesome

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[-] ABasilPlant@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Isn't Angstrom 10^-10 meters? And nanometers 10^-9 meters? So 20A (assuming A = Angstrom) is just 2nm?

Are they trying to say that by moving to this new era, they'll go single digit Angstrom i.e., 0.x nm?

[-] ludrol@bookwormstory.social 14 points 4 months ago

Yes, but that is long past an actuall transistor size and just a marketing term.

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[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago

I want a 916,000 pound super load in my ass

[-] OhmsLawn@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Wish they had a photo of the thing. That's not a 280 ft trailer.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 points 4 months ago

It was a 280 foot trailer but due to Moore's law, it has undergone multiple shrink cycles while still maintaining 280 feet worth of storage inside.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
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