Thew few comments on this (and other stories) keep repeating the "Give them time!" and "We need to set milestones for this!"
Milestones were "Up and running with 3000 jobs by the end of 2025." It's now maybe 2031 before anything even starts.
A co-worker who lives in the area of the plant (his original home was one that was purchased to build it) says the local talking heads are repeating this story, even going as far to say that the opening date is now unknown - if it gets that far.
They had their chance to pivot and make GPUs 20-25 years ago. Instead they started one in 2008, canceled it, and didn't try again until 2019, which are just hitting the market now.
What kind of fucking retard watches their business get blown up for two+ decades? Intel hasn't had a real leader in a long, long time.
And AMD consistently eats their lunch in performance on the cpu side. If it weren't for their massive OEM near exclusivity contracts, Intel would have been out of business years ago.
Intel though their x86 business would keep them forever.
The state of Ohio, too, will lose out on 3,000 jobs that Intel estimated would come along with the project should it not come to fruition.
Those jobs never existed and was never going to be. Intel made it clear it would have been a failover factory if production needed more resources to pump out more chips AND the workers to man the factory were to be imported from other areas of the world.
Bait. Switch.
That is 100% correct, but that didn't stop all of the towns from Columbus to Newcomerstown from banking on the factory.
I haven't said "fuck you Intel" in a couple of days, so fuck you Intel!
So, they got a bunch of tax breaks, bought land, etc and just lied about development. Revoke all of it and take the land of they do not go through with it. Simple.
No, they didn't lie...they told the WSJ when this project started that they would only manufacture if demand required it.
