In which country were the following CPU's made ? All in China ?

[Victor43]

Does anyone know in which country were the following CPU's made in ? Where can I find the answer ? Thanks

Intel® Core™ i7-3520M Processor Released Q2'12

Intel® Core™ i7-3537U Processor Released Q1'13

Intel® Core™ i5-4690T Processor Released Q2'14

Intel® Celeron® Processor N2830 Released Q1'14

Intel® Core™ i5-5350U Processor Released Q1'15

 

[ThatBuzzkiller]

Depends on what you mean by the following definition "made". Intel has teams all over the world to "design" the CPU microarchitecture but all of those processors are "manufactured" either in Israel, Ireland or the United States ...

 

[NTMBK]

This should help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants Intel's only Chinese plant is used to make VNAND, which is used in SSDs. All of those chips will have been manufactured in Israel, Ireland or the USA.

 

[Victor43]

Depends on what you mean by the following definition "made". Intel has teams all over the world to "design" the CPU microarchitecture but all of those processors are "manufactured" either in Israel, Ireland or the United States ...

Thanks again for the post. What I am meaning to say is where would these CPU';s be actually fabricated or manufactured not designed.

 

[Victor43]

This should help you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabrication_plants Intel's only Chinese plant is used to make VNAND, which is used in SSDs. All of those chips will have been manufactured in Israel, Ireland or the USA.

Thanks dude. But somehow I don't believe or find it difficult to believe that t Intel does not manufacturer CPU's in China. I have reason to believe they do.

By the way does anyone know if Chinese engineers are involved with the actual design of the Intel PC CPU's both laptops and desktop models ?

 

[Sheep221]

There are 2 stages of CPU manufacturing, the difussion and the assembly.
Difussion is process of making wafers which are then distributed elsewhere to be assemblied to PCBs and IHSes and become complete CPUs.

Diffusion Fabs are in Arizona, Oregon, Texas, New Mexico, Ireland, Israel and China and Assembly factories are in Vietnam, China, Malaysia and Costa Rica. Since fabs just all are making same products and delivery is on demand it is not possible to isolate exact CPU model to one fab or country.
What is printed on the IHS and Box is where the CPU was assemblied only, not where its die was difussed.

I don't think that there are any Intel design offices in China, but I do believe that some chinese workers are employed in european and american design offices. Intel's workforce is very diverse and probably citizens of many countries were involved at some point in design of their CPUs.

 

[pitz]

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[Andyroy99]

Thanks again for this post.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

OP, I'm all about buy American whenever possible and avoid China whenever possible. I have to ask why is this so important?

 

[Mike64]

But somehow I don't believe or find it difficult to believe that t Intel does not manufacturer CPU's in China. I have reason to believe they do.

Like what, pray tell?

 

[piasabird]

There are lots of motherboards made in China.

I dont buy any food Made in China. China is full of polluted water that is unfit for anything. Also a lot of land in China is also polluted. They even had Milk they sold that was polluted. Then there are keyboards and children's toys that were made with Lead Paint. In the last ten years there was flooring and wallboard with formaldehyde that made people sick. Do you really need more reasons than this?

 

[pm]

Thanks dude. But somehow I don't believe or find it difficult to believe that t Intel does not manufacturer CPU's in China. I have reason to believe they do.

By the way does anyone know if Chinese engineers are involved with the actual design of the Intel PC CPU's both laptops and desktop models ?

What reason do you have to believe that? It's incorrect. The vast majority of Intel's manufacturing is in the US - with additional capacity in Ireland and Israel. Assembly is done mostly in Malaysia, China and Vietnam with some assembly in the US. Similarly the vast majaority of design work at Intel is done in the US, with additional design sites in Ireland, UK, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, India, China and Malaysia. But most of the design is in the US - the CPU's listed at the top were primarily designed in Oregon and Israel and India.

There is a 65nm fab in China but it's mostly for NAND for SSD's and not for CPU's.

Here's a list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites

and with fancier graphics also here:
http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/22nm/pdfs/Global-Intel-Manufacturing_FactSheet.pdf

You can see that China's fab is 65nm and none of the CPU's at the top are 65nm CPU's.

 

[cyclohexane]

Why does it matter? Why the fascination?

 

[nerp]

There are lots of motherboards made in China.

I dont buy any food Made in China. China is full of polluted water that is unfit for anything. Also a lot of land in China is also polluted. They even had Milk they sold that was polluted. Then there are keyboards and children's toys that were made with Lead Paint. In the last ten years there was flooring and wallboard with formaldehyde that made people sick. Do you really need more reasons than this?

Don't put CPU in mouth.

 

[ericlp]

Don't put CPU in mouth.

LOL! Or apples... Most concentrated frozen apple juice comes from China. Even bottled apple juice 99% of it is China. Whoops!

Probably a lot more is from China as well... It's really hard to see it because if you go look on the juice it just has small letters like PRC or something to that effect labeled on it. People's Republic of China .... china only exports about 40 tonnes apples every year... that about 10X more what the USA can export.

 

[poohbear]

There are lots of motherboards made in China.

I dont buy any food Made in China. China is full of polluted water that is unfit for anything. Also a lot of land in China is also polluted. They even had Milk they sold that was polluted. Then there are keyboards and children's toys that were made with Lead Paint. In the last ten years there was flooring and wallboard with formaldehyde that made people sick. Do you really need more reasons than this?

What the bloody hell does food have to do with Intel??? What on earth is the purpose of this thread???

 

[Blain]

Thanks dude. But somehow I don't believe or find it difficult to believe that t Intel does not manufacturer CPU's in China. I have reason to believe they do.

By the way does anyone know if Chinese engineers are involved with the actual design of the Intel PC CPU's both laptops and desktop models ?

Why does it matter? Why the fascination?

:sneaky: He probably suspects some nefarious alterations to the processors.

 

[x26]

Why does it matter? Why the fascination?

Maybe he doesn't want to send $$$ to China so they can Send Bombs Away to the US.

 

[Mike64]

Maybe he doesn't want to send $$$ to China so they can Send Bombs Away to the US.

Why would they bother bombing us (and destroying their primary consumer base) when they could much more easily, without violating a single canon of international law, bring us to our knees by simply declaring a moratorium on iPhone production?^_^

 

[dganev]

Completely agree with Mike64.