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Aloha Campus

About the Campus

Get to know the Aloha campus

The Aloha Campus was the first Intel campus outside of California and Fab4 was the first fabrication facility (fab) in Oregon. Construction began in 1974 and Fab4 opened in 1976. Since then, Intel has invested more than $25 billion in the state of Oregon and currently employs over 20,000 people, making it the state’s largest employer.

The last steps in the chip manufacturing process occur at the Aloha campus.

Environmental Information

Water
0.00
Millions of Gallons
Water Conserved
66
Millions of Gallons
Water Used
Waste
60
%
Percent Non-Hazardous Waste Recycled
1,676
Short Tons
Non-Hazardous Waste Generated
0.00
%
Percent Hazardous Waste to Landfill
556
Short Tons
Hazardous Waste Generated
Energy
33,031,293
kWh
Electricity Saved (kWh)
54,047,188
kWh
kWh Used
9,818
MTCO2e
CO2 Saved
Air
340,201
Tons of CO2 Equivalent
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions
1.44
Short Tons
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)
0.28
Short Tons
Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs)
0.51
Short Tons
Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx)
1.65
Short Tons
Carbon Monoxide (CO)
1.13
Short Tons
Total Fluorides (F) from RA and AL

Photos

Intel acquired its first property in Oregon in 1974. Since then, the company’s capital investments in the state have topped $25 billion.

Intel acquired its first property in Oregon in 1974 and since then has invested over $25 billion in the state and currently employs over 17,000.
Fab 15 connects to Fab 5 and AL3 via walkways. Fab 5 is currently not an active factory.
Fab 4 was originally constructed in 1976 to produce 3 inch diameter wafers. Today Fab15 processes 12 inch wafers.
Fab 4 was the first fab Intel built in Oregon

Chips are processed and sorted using state-of-the-art technology in two different areas of the Aloha campus.

Fab employees wear special suits, nicknamed bunny suits, which are designed to keep contaminants such as lint and hair off the wafers during chip manufacturing.
Clean rooms are thousands of times cleaner than hospital operating rooms.
Employees in the fab manage the tools in the clean room. Each tool performs a step toward creating a chip on a wafer in the manufacturing process.
Making chips is a complex process requiring hundreds of precisely controlled steps that result in patterned layers of various materials built one on top of another.
The wafers are moved through the fab on automated tracks.
The chips that Intel produces can be as small as a grain of rice.

The Intel sites in Oregon have diverse on-site amenities for employees, such as cafés, health centers, fitness centers, and more. Intel employees are encouraged give back to their communities through volunteering, and can earn matching monetary grants for qualifying organizations from the Intel Foundation.

Intel sites in Oregon provide electric vehicle charging stations
Intel Oregon created community gardens where employees can grow fruits and vegetables in the raised beds at Ronler Acres.
President Obama has visited Ronler Acres to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and technology manufacturing.
Oregon employees volunteer their time at numerous organizations and schools. Intel matches volunteer hours with a monetary grant.
Intel Oregon employees volunteer their time at the local food bank.

Videos

Sustainability in Action: The Intel Sustainability in Action program provides grants to Intel employees to develop sustainability projects throughout the world.
Sand to Silicon: Follow the chip-making process from sand to silicon.
HAP Scrubber: Scrubbers are used to reduce hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions.
VOC Abatement Technology: Rotary Concentrator Thermal Oxidizers (RCTO) are used to reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. The RCTOs have a destruct/removal efficiency of at least 95%.