Intel i5 made in China?

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anyone else noticed that some new i5 now come from China?

recently I received i5 8600 with made in china label.
 
Probably packaging and testing done in China. It doesn't look like Intel has a CPU fab in China.
 
Probably packaging and testing done in China. It doesn't look like Intel has a CPU fab in China.
Fab 68, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Although, I didn't think they were doing CPUs there, but who knows besides Intel :)
 
Fab 68, Dalian, Liaoning, China

Although, I didn't think they were doing CPUs there, but who knows besides Intel :)

Fab 68 is listed as doing NAND chips, which is why I said they don't appear to have a CPU Fab in China.

They do have a couple of testing/packaging sites in China, which is why I said this was likely packaged/tested in China.
 
Just a second, checking your CPU. Hmmm.. yep, says made in China. Could be a typo. Do you want me to fix?
 
Fab 68 is listed as doing NAND chips, which is why I said they don't appear to have a CPU Fab in China.

They do have a couple of testing/packaging sites in China, which is why I said this was likely packaged/tested in China.
That's why I said I didn't think they did CPUs there. Who knows, could be doing the silicon/die in one location and packaging in China or something... Could explain why some of the TIM applications aren't that great ;)
 
Or it could just be the strait forward logical option. They are just doing the packaging/testing at their packaging/testing sites.

This is much like when someone leaped to the conclusion that one of the new NVidia RTX Super cards GPU chip was fabbed by Samsung because it said Korea, when it was just packaging/testing being done in Korea.
 
Same thing on my 5700 XTs - on the dies one is marked Made in Taiwan, the other China. The assumption is that it refers to the packaging. They perform exactly the same so it shouldn't be anything for you to worry about either.
 
Same thing on my 5700 XTs - on the dies one is marked Made in Taiwan, the other China. The assumption is that it refers to the packaging. They perform exactly the same so it shouldn't be anything for you to worry about either.
Board is China and gpu is Taiwan.
 
Intel mentioned a while back that they would use their Intel factory to help supply the CPU shortage.

Supposedly Intel China chips were only previously sold to China only.

At the moment I can't find that article that I read it from. Everything is plague about the whole USA-China tariff when I tried googling.
 
Intel mentioned a while back that they would use their Intel factory to help supply the CPU shortage.

Link or it didn't happen. I follow tech news every day, and I don't remember that. It isn't even something Intel would likely talk about publicly.
 
Link or it didn't happen. I follow tech news every day, and I don't remember that. It isn't even something Intel would likely talk about publicly.

A lot of us follow tech news everyday. I'll try to keep digging. The only thing I recall was Intel trying to address the shortage by planning on using their China fab to help with the supplies outside of China. I don't see why Intel wouldn't talk about it publicly about it? Intel always needs something to feed to their shareholders about their ongoing yield issues.

To be honest though, I might be confusing myself though with 14nm chipsets instead of CPUs.
 
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Here is what I found. I remember the testing bottleneck being mentioned:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-14nm-shortage-test-facility,37783.html
Intel has published a document that outlines the expansion of testing capabilities for 14nm processors to "assure a continuous supply" of some processors as it grapples with a shortage of manufacturing capacity. The move suggests that, aside from record demand, some of the issues with 14nm production capacity may stem from the availability of the company's chip-testing facilities.

They also issued an open letter:
https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/supply-update/
To address this challenge, we’re taking the following actions:

  • We are investing a record $15 billion in capital expenditures in 2018, up approximately $1 billion from the beginning of the year. We’re putting that $1 billion into our 14nm manufacturing sites in Oregon, Arizona, Ireland and Israel. This capital along with other efficiencies is increasing our supply to respond to your increased demand.

No mention of China in either...
 
Maybe it was just that there fab equipment was being built in China to speed up 10nm? ;)
 
I was talking to someone a while ago that works at Intel and asked about this due to my confusion about the printed labels on IHS. They said they only fab CPUs (wafers/die) in the US but ship them elsewhere for packaging which is where it is stamped on the IHS. Given some US Government contracts require parts used to be only manufactured in the US I doubt Intel will start making them elsewhere to be honest.
 
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