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At a glance

Intel, a designer and manufacturer of computer processors and other chips, has been in Arizona since 1979 and has two campuses in Chandler, Arizona: the Chandler campus and the Ocotillo campus. On the Ocotillo campus, Fab 52 is Intel's fifth high-volume chip factory and a sixth, Fab 62, is under construction. Intel said in October 2025 that Fab 52 was fully operational, making parts of its Panther Lake PC processors on its 18A process. Intel put its capital investment in Arizona at $34.5 billion in a 2024 fact sheet.

Key facts

Arizona locations (2)
Headquarters
Santa Clara, California
Ownership
Public company
Nasdaq: INTC
Website
intel.com

Sources: AZ Job Connection (State of Arizona), U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · Addresses open Google Maps in a new tab

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Intel in Arizona: Key Developments

  • Oct 22, 2026
    Intel's Fab 62 Equipment Installation Underway
    Intel reported that manufacturing equipment installation is underway at its Fab 62 plant on the Ocotillo campus in Chandler. Intel expects operations to begin by the end of 2028; it has not said when high-volume production will begin. Tool installation is one of the most expensive and final steps before a fab can produce. It signals Intel is adding U.S. capacity for advanced chips.
  • Oct 22, 2026
    Intel’s $32B Arizona Expansion Moves Forward with Next Fab
    Intel is moving forward with its Fab 62 semiconductor factory at its Ocotillo campus in Chandler, with construction and manufacturing equipment installation underway and operations expected to begin by the end of 2028. The facility will become the campus’s sixth factory dedicated to high-volume chip manufacturing. Naga Chandrasekaran, executive vice president and chief technology and … [More] The post Intel’s $32B Arizona Expansion Moves Forward with Next Fab appeared first on Greater Phoenix In Business Magazine.
  • Oct 19, 2026
    New cybersecurity challenges are on the horizon; will the world be ready?
    A hacked robot assistant gathers intel to steal the identity of a senior in a care facility. A caller with a deepfake of a loved one’s voice begs a family member to pay a ransom to a “kidnapper.” A compromised car sensor prevents it from braking safely.Cybersecurity is a shifting landscape, and new technologies, for all their promise, can also threaten new nightmare scenarios.
  • Sep 8, 2026
    Intel Foundry and ASML Collaborate to Accelerate Industry Readiness for High-NA EUV
    Intel and ASML say High-NA EUV is in volume production on select layers of some Intel 18A Panther Lake processors, with more than one million wafers processed across testing, R&D and production. Intel makes Panther Lake at Fab 52 in Chandler.
  • Aug 4, 2026
    Arizona Suppliers Pitch Boeing, Intel, Lockheed and Other Industry Leaders
    Small manufacturers from across Arizona convened to forge new business relationships, showcasing their products and services at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Supplier Matchmaking Expo, co-hosted with Intel. The event focused on growing aerospace and semiconductor supply chains. It was designed to help large companies and industrial producers connect with small domestic suppliers, reshore … [More] The post Arizona Suppliers Pitch Boeing, Intel, Lockheed and Other Industry Leaders appeared first on Greater Phoenix In Business Magazine.
  • Jul 29, 2026
    SBA and Intel host Scottsdale Expo to boost semiconductor and aerospace supply chains
    KTAR reports: "The U.S. Small Business Administration, in partnership with Intel, hosted a matchmaking expo in Scottsdale on Wednesday to help bolster the semiconductor and aerospace supply chains. SBA Deputy Administrator Bill Briggs compares their matchmaking sessions to speed dating as the goal is for small businesses to connect with large manufacturers. Previous expos hosted by the SBA focused other industries have resulted in hundreds of matches and more than $250,000 in revenue."
  • Jul 27, 2026
    Intel Debuts New Chip For Space Computing
    The Starfire chip has been in the making for years and is designed to support resilient and high power onboard data processing and AI workloads in the unforgiving cold of space.

How does Intel fit into AI?

Modern AI runs on physical silicon, and that silicon passes through several hands before it ever answers a question. Here is the path, and where Intel sits on it. Stages not marked below are shown for context and are not claims about Intel.

  1. Chip design: Companies like Nvidia, Apple and AMD design the chips. Chip designers decide what a chip does and hand the blueprint to a factory. The three companies whose designs matter most to AI - Nvidia, Apple and AMD - do that work elsewhere, then send the designs to fabs. None of them owns a fab of its own.
  2. Wafer fabrication (here today): Fabs print billions of transistors onto silicon wafers. Fab 52 in Chandler, the US home of Intel 18A. A fab prints a design onto a polished disc of silicon called a wafer, layer by layer, until billions of transistors exist where there was blank material. It is the hardest and most expensive step in the chain, and the reason a single factory can cost tens of billions of dollars.
  3. Advanced packaging: Wafers are cut and assembled into finished chips. Packaging cuts a finished wafer into individual chips and assembles them, often stacking several pieces of silicon and memory into one component. For AI chips this step is nearly as demanding as fabrication, and a wafer is not a usable product until it is done.
  4. Servers and devices: Chips are built into AI servers, phones and PCs. Finished chips are assembled into the things people actually buy and deploy: data-center servers, phones, laptops. This is where a chip stops being a component and starts being a product.
  5. AI in use: Data centers and devices run AI models on that silicon. The end of the chain: models answering questions, generating images and driving software, running on the silicon every earlier step produced. Every AI service anyone uses is running on physical hardware somewhere, and that hardware started as a wafer.

Intel: Wafer fabrication (here today)

  • Intel says the most advanced logic chips made in the U.S. come from here (company-reported): Intel says Fab 52, its fifth high-volume fab on the Ocotillo campus in Chandler, produces the most advanced logic chips in the United States, and that Intel 18A is the most advanced semiconductor node both developed and manufactured domestically. Source: Intel
  • Arizona builds the server chips that data centers run on (company-reported): Intel Xeon 6+, codenamed Clearwater Forest, is built on Intel 18A and manufactured at Fab 52. It is a data-center part aimed at the dense, power-efficient racks that hyperscalers and cloud providers fill, which is the hardware layer under most AI services. Source: Intel
  • Amazon's AI networking chip is designed for this node (announced): Intel and AWS announced a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar co-investment under which Intel produces an AI fabric chip for AWS on Intel 18A, the node Fab 52 was built for. Intel named Ohio as the manufacturing site in that announcement, so this is the node Arizona proves rather than Arizona output. Source: Intel
  • Since 1979, and $34.5 billion invested (company-reported): Intel's November 2024 fact sheet puts its capital investment in Arizona to date at $34.5 billion. Intel says in the same fact sheet that it is investing more than $32 billion to build two new fabs and modernize an existing fab at its Ocotillo campus in Chandler. Source: Intel

About Intel

What Intel does

Intel is a global designer and manufacturer of semiconductor products whose CPUs, or computer processors, go into PCs and data-center servers. Through Intel Foundry, it also offers chip design and manufacturing services to other companies.

Intel has been in Arizona since 1979 and has made chips in Chandler since 1980.

In Arizona

Chandler campus: Intel's campus at 5000 W. Chandler Blvd. sits at Chandler Boulevard and Rural Road, where Intel opened its first manufacturing plant in Chandler in 1980. Intel dates its Arizona manufacturing to October 1980, when the first silicon wafers came off Fab 6. In 2012 Intel began building a $300 million, 285,000-square-foot research and development building on the campus to expand its chip packaging operations.

Ocotillo campus: Intel's Ocotillo campus in Chandler covers roughly 700 acres and has grown, since Intel broke ground on Fab 12 there in 1994, into five high-volume fabs, with $34.5 billion of capital invested in Arizona to date, according to Intel's November 2024 fact sheet.

Water: Intel says that, as of the end of 2023, it was net positive for water in Arizona, meaning it returned and restored more water than it consumed.

Newest fab: Chandler is now the center of gravity for Intel's attempt to regain process leadership. Fab 52, the newest fab on the campus, became fully operational in October 2025 as the first high-volume home of the Intel 18A process, which Intel calls the most advanced logic node developed and manufactured in the United States.

It builds the Core Ultra series 3 client processors (Panther Lake) and the Xeon 6+ server family (Clearwater Forest). Intel's chief technology and operations officer has said the fab is capable of more than 10,000 18A wafer starts per week.

Role in AI and chips

That matters for Arizona beyond Intel itself. 18A introduces RibbonFET transistors and PowerVia backside power delivery, and Fab 52 is positioned as capacity for Intel Foundry customers as well as Intel's own products. Alongside TSMC's Phoenix campus, it makes the Phoenix metro one of the few places on earth where leading-edge logic for AI and data-center computing is manufactured at scale.

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Research

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Intel in Arizona: By the Numbers

Each figure is dated and linked to its source. Figures that are company-reported, announced, or projected rather than measured are labeled.

  • Employees in Chandler (both Intel campuses): about 10,000
  • Annual Arizona economic impact: $10.7 billion / yr (company-reported)
  • Capital invested in Arizona to date: $34.5 billion (company-reported)
  • Fabs at Ocotillo: 5 operating, 1 in construction
  • Ocotillo campus: 700 acres
  • Green power in Arizona: 100% (company-reported)

The Arizona build-out, 1979 to 2028

  • 1979: Arizona presence established
  • 1997: Fab 12: came online
  • 2001: Fab 22: came online
  • 2007: Fab 32: came online
  • 2020: Fab 42: came online
  • 2025: Fab 52: fully operational
  • 2028: Fab 62: expected ready (projected)

Intel Chandler campus, W. Chandler Blvd., Arizona

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Address5000 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler, AZ 852262025-08-25verifiedAZ Job Connection (State of Arizona)
What it isIntel's Chandler campus, where Intel says it started its first Arizona production line in 19802024-06-01company-reported From the company's own published information.Intel

Intel Fab 12, Chandler, Arizona

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Address4500 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler, AZ 852482026-10-28verifiedU.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Came online19971997-01-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
Construction cost$1.3 billion1997-01-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
Cleanroom size~132,000-140,000 sq ft2024-06-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
What it makesIntel 22/14/10nm-class parts; being repurposed for the Intel-UMC 12nm node2024-01-25announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.AnandTech

Intel Fab 22, Chandler, Arizona

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Address4500 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler, AZ 852482026-10-28verifiedU.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Came online20012001-12-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
Construction cost$2 billion2001-12-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
Cleanroom size~133,000 sq ft2024-06-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
What it makesIntel 22/14/10nm-class parts; same Intel-UMC 12nm repurposing as Fab 122024-01-25announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.AnandTech

Intel Fab 32, Chandler, Arizona

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Address4500 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler, AZ 852482026-10-28verifiedU.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Came onlineOctober 20072007-10-25verifiedIntel
Construction cost$3 billion2007-10-25verifiedIntel
Cleanroom size184,000 sq ft2007-10-25verifiedIntel
What it makesLaunched on 45nm; today produces Intel 7-class parts2024-06-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
Planned useNamed by Intel, with Fabs 12 and 22, for the Intel-UMC 12nm process2024-01-25announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.Intel

Intel Fab 42, Chandler, Arizona

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Address4500 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler, AZ 852482026-10-28verifiedU.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Came online20202020-01-01verifiedEngineering News-Record
Construction costabout $7 billion2020-01-01verifiedigor'sLAB
Cleanroom size240,000 sq ft2020-01-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)
Inside the fabAbout 1,300 production tools, some weighing as much as 5 tons2020-01-01verifiedEngineering News-Record
What it makesIntel 10nm-class products2024-06-01verifiedSemiAnalysis (Alex Guo)

Intel Fab 52, Chandler, Arizona

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Address4500 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler, AZ 852482026-10-28verifiedU.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Fully operationalOctober 20252025-10-09verifiedIntel
Cleanroom sizeat least 250,000 sq ft2021-09-24verifiedIntel
What it makesPanther Lake (Core Ultra series 3) compute tiles; Clearwater Forest (Xeon 6+) server processors from H1 20262025-10-09verifiedIntel
Stated capacitymore than 10,000 18A wafer starts per week2025-12-15company-reported From the company's own published information.Tom's Hardware
Construction scale75,000 tons of rebar (twice the Burj Khalifa), 35,000 tons of structural steel (five Eiffel Towers), ~600,000 cubic meters of concrete, and 9 million meters of cable - about 214 marathons laid end to end2025-10-12company-reported From the company's own published information.SemiWiki
The craneSteel trusses were lifted by the largest crawler crane of its kind in the world - which local third graders named in a school contest2023-09-01verifiedEngineering News-Record

Intel Fab 62, Chandler, Arizona

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Address4500 S. Dobson Rd., Chandler, AZ 852482026-10-28verifiedU.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board
Expected readyaround 20282026-06-17projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.Tom's Hardware
Cleanroom sizeat least 250,000 sq ft (design)2021-09-24announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.Intel

Facilities

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Fabs connected by overhead trackFive operating fabs linked by about 30 miles of automated overhead track moving wafers between them; more than 1 million sq ft of cleanroom in total2025-12-19company-reported From the company's own published information.CNBC

Investment

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Fab 52 and Fab 62, cost announced in 2021$20 billion2024-01-25announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.Engineering News-Record
CHIPS Act direct funding award$7.9 billion2024-11-26announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.Intel
Brookfield co-investment in Fab 52/62up to $15 billion2022-08-23verifiedTom's Hardware

Workforce

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Arizona workforce, 2024 press reportsabout 12,000-13,0002024-09-30verifiedArizona Republic / USA Today
Arizona layoffs announced, October 20243852024-10-31verifiedArizona Republic / USA Today
Chandler layoffs, 2025 restructuringclose to 7002025-07-16verifiedSiliconANGLE
New roles projected from the 2021 expansion3,0002021-03-23projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.Intel

Production

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Intel-UMC 12nm process: Arizona fabs namedFabs 12, 22 and 32 at the Ocotillo site in Chandler2024-01-25announced From a public announcement. Plans can change.Intel
Intel-UMC 12nm process: timingUMC's CEO said in July 2026 that 2027 will probably be a pilot stage, with production becoming more meaningful in 20282026-07-29projected A forward-looking estimate, not a measured result.Earnings Whispers

Water and environment

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
On-site water reclamation capacity9,000,000 gallons/day2025-02-13verifiedEngineering News-Record
Water-positive claimReturned and restored more water than it consumed in Arizona, as of the end of 20232023-12-31company-reported From the company's own published information.Intel

Other

MeasureValueAs ofBasisSource
Arizona presence established19791979-01-01company-reported From the company's own published information.Intel
Employee volunteer hours since 2019about 379,0002026-11-01company-reported From the company's own published information.Intel
Giving to Arizona schools and nonprofits, last five years$34.9 million over five years2025-01-01company-reported From the company's own published information.Intel

Sources

Intel Jobs in Arizona (206 open)

Arizona AI currently tracks 206 open Intel roles in Arizona, the largest named category being process & equipment engineering (58). Counts come from the Arizona AI job index, aggregated from the employer's own careers system and refreshed twice daily; they reflect published listings, not total employment.

Most current listings at Intel in Arizona advertise $116,790 to $200,000 a year, with a midpoint of $161,345. Across every listing the full span runs $44,230 to $361,480. Medians across 166 of 206 listings with employer-published pay.

Intel Process & Equipment Engineering Jobs in Arizona (58)

Intel Manufacturing & Equipment Technicians Jobs in Arizona (31)

Intel Software, Data & AI Jobs in Arizona (25)

Intel Internships & Early Career Jobs in Arizona (18)

Intel Business & Corporate Jobs in Arizona (14)

Intel Hardware & Design Engineering Jobs in Arizona (14)

Intel Supply Chain & Procurement Jobs in Arizona (12)

Intel Facilities, Construction & Utilities Jobs in Arizona (6)

Intel Packaging, Assembly & Test Jobs in Arizona (6)

Intel IT, Security & Networking Jobs in Arizona (5)

Intel Other Roles Jobs in Arizona (17)

Intel in Arizona: Common Questions

How many jobs does Intel have open in Arizona right now?

Arizona AI is currently tracking 206 open Intel roles in Arizona, across Phoenix and Chandler. The count updates automatically as Intel adds and removes postings, and duplicate listings for the same role are merged.

What does Intel pay in Arizona?

Most current postings at Intel in Arizona advertise $116,790 to $200,000 a year, with a midpoint of $161,345; across all listings the full span runs $44,230 to $361,480. These are ranges Intel publishes on its own job postings, not estimates or self-reported figures, drawn from 166 of 206 current listings. An individual posting's range may span several job levels.

What kinds of roles does Intel hire for in Arizona?

The largest categories among current listings at Intel in Arizona are process & equipment engineering (58), manufacturing & equipment technicians (31), software, data & ai (25), internships & early career (18). Categories are derived from job titles by Arizona AI.

Where in Arizona are Intel jobs located?

Intel lists Arizona roles in Phoenix and Chandler. Locations are shown exactly as Intel publishes them; the company's main Arizona site is Chandler, AZ. Employers sometimes label roles with the metropolitan area rather than the specific campus city.

How do I apply for a job at Intel in Arizona?

Each listing on this page links through to Intel's own application page. Arizona AI does not collect applications or charge job seekers, and roles are aggregated from the employer's official careers system rather than from third-party recruiters.