Inside An Intel Chip Fab

The “Team Room” inside Intel’s Fab D1X in Hillsboro, Oregon, is unique. It’s the sole conference room inside this entire multibillion-dollar factory. Though the fab sprawls over four football fields, every square foot is supremely expensive and valuable. That’s why Intel designed leading-edge Fab D1X with one and only room like this. Anything entering the fab – including the Fab D1X Team Room – must be thoroughly scrubbed or swabbed. Human skin and hair must be almost entirely covered. Workers wear head-to-toe bunny suits, protective glasses, two pairs of gloves, booties, hoods, and face masks. Workers often recognize one another by their build or their gait, not their face.