I’m at the UK’s newest computer chip plant in Durham. Formerly a ceramic pipe factory, from the outside it looks like a big warehouse.
But inside the vast space is being transformed into a sophisticated hub for the manufacturing of computer chips.
Pragmatic Semiconductor has already built one production line, which the industry likes to call fabrication lines, or fab lines.
Sealed off in its own large room, the production line has all the expensive machinery needed to make the computer chips, and the air inside is carefully controlled to avoid any contamination during production.
Pragmatic has the money to build another such production line, and funding of £182m ($230m) announced late last year will fund production lines three and four.
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Curated by Arun