Locator: 49749FABS.
We'll sort this out later. For now, three links.
We track the "fabs" here. Link here.
Samsung beats Apple to the "2 nm" chip. Absolutely useless information. LOL. Link here.
Top 10 most advanced fabs in the world -- latest ranking, updated December 8, 2025: link here.
- TSMC Fab 18 (Taiwan)
- Samsung Pyeongtaek Campus (South Korea)
- Intel D1X (USA)
- TSMC Fab 20 (Taiwan)
- Samsung Hwaseong (South Korea)
- Intel Ocotillo Fab 42 (USA)
- TSMC Arizona Fab (USA)
- Samsug Taylor Fab (USA)
- Intel Magdeburg Fab (Germany)
- GlobalFoundries Fab 8 (USA)
- TSMC Nanjing (China)
- Sansun Austin (USA)
- TSMC Kumamoto Fab (Japan) --joint venture with Sony
- SMIC Beijing Fab (China) -- most advanced fab in China; produces 7 nm chips
- SK Hynix M16 (South Korea) -- DRAM and NAND with EUV lithography for advanced memoryMicron Hiroshima Fab (Japan) -- Advanced DRAM using 1-Alpha process node
- Intel Ireland Fab 34 --
- TSMC Fab 15 (Taiwan)
- UMC Fab 12A (Taiwan)
- Samsung P3 Fab (South Korea) -- 2nm and below using GAA transistors by 2025
- TSMC Fab 16 (Taiwan)
- Intel New Mexico Fab (USA)
- SMIC Shanghai (China)
- GlobalFoundries Dresden (Germany) -- Europe's most advanced fab, producing 22 nma nd 12 nm chips
- SK Hynix M15X (South Korea)
- Micron Boise Fab (USA)
- TSMC Fab 22 (Taiwan) -- future 1.4 nm production site; expected 2027
- Samsung Xi'an (China)
- Intel Arizona Fab 52/62 (USA) -- $20 billion investment; 5nm and 2nm (20A)
- Rapidus Fab (Japan) -- new; 2nm production by 2027