Beware King
Kong
GlobalFoundries has sent us a press release saying that the new
computer chip plant it is building will require nearly as much human effort
as it did to build the 102-story Empire State Building.
Land-clearing at
the site began at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in the US is the first
step in a huge three-year construction project expected to require 5 million
person-hours. True the Empire State took 7 million man-hours to build but it
lacked half of the machinery which is used today, even if the manpower was
controlled by robo-aliens [You watch far too much Doctor Who. ed] (Indeed. sub.ed.)
The
$4.2 billion factory will require 1,000 builders by next year. More than
$800 million will go into initial construction, with another $3.4 billion
being spent on the highly sophisticated chipmaking equipment inside the
factory.
The factory is scheduled to open in 2012 with a permanent workforce
of more than 1,400, making 22-nanometer computer chips.