Intel Is Trucking a 916,000-Pound 'Super Load' Across Ohio To Its New Fab (tomshardware.com) 48
Intel has begun ferrying around 20 "super loads" across Ohio for the construction of its new $28 billion Ohio One Campus. The extensive planning and coordination required for these shipments are expected to cause road closures and delays during the nine days of transport. Tom's Hardware reports: Intel's new campus coming to New Albany, OH, is in heavy construction, and around 20 super loads are being ferried across Ohio's roads by the Ohio Department of Transportation after arriving at a port of the Ohio River via barge. Four of these loads, including the one hitting the road now, weigh around 900,000 pounds -- that's 400 metric tons, or 76 elephants. The super loads were first planned for February but were delayed due to the immense planning workload. Large crowds are estimated to accumulate on the route, potentially slowing it even further.
Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field. The immense scale of the cold box necessitates a transit process that moves at a "parade pace" of 5-10 miles per hour. Intel is taking over southern Ohio's roads for the next several weeks and months as it builds its new Ohio One Campus, a $28 billion project to create a 1,000-acre campus with two chip factories and room for more. Calling it the new "Silicon Heartland," the project will be the first leading-edge semiconductor fab in the American Midwest, and once operational, will get to work on the "Angstrom era" of Intel processes, 20A and beyond. The Ohio Department of Transportation has shared a timetable for how long this process will take.
Intel's 916,000-pound shipment is a "cold box," a self-standing air-processor structure that facilitates the cryogenic technology needed to fabricate semiconductors. The box is 23 feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 280 feet long, nearly the length of a football field. The immense scale of the cold box necessitates a transit process that moves at a "parade pace" of 5-10 miles per hour. Intel is taking over southern Ohio's roads for the next several weeks and months as it builds its new Ohio One Campus, a $28 billion project to create a 1,000-acre campus with two chip factories and room for more. Calling it the new "Silicon Heartland," the project will be the first leading-edge semiconductor fab in the American Midwest, and once operational, will get to work on the "Angstrom era" of Intel processes, 20A and beyond. The Ohio Department of Transportation has shared a timetable for how long this process will take.
That's huge! (Score:2)
I watched them move Endeavor and that giant rock across LA (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitated_Mass) but that was a mere 380 tons.
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I saw both. The rock cracked the avenue as it passed by, and the cracks are still there. Watching the teams of semi tractors slowly moving along in formation with all their flashers on reminded me a heavy metal version of the Electric Light parade at Disneyland. The Endeavor prime mover was elegant as the dozens of wheels synchronized the criss-cross of the boulevard to avoid poles and trees. In both cases worker teams went along and trimmed branches or unlugged poles to tilt them out of the way when necess
Oh no. (Score:3)
I wish my mom had said she was moving.
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I wish my mom had said she was moving.
We didn't want to tell you for fear you would move into the basement at her new place. /s
Re: Oh no. (Score:2)
That basement had better be a bunker or she'll collapse it!
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Yay for units. (Score:3)
Aye that's the length of a football field, 1/8th the width of a football field, and weighs in at three score and sixteen elephants. It's also 0.035 furlongs high, but I can't remember how high that is in football fields.
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What are they going to do with all those elephants?
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Measure them in units of giraffes.
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Measure them in units of giraffes.
Only on Slashdot
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How many giraffes is this? I'm from the US.
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Meh, I prefer Olympic-sized swimming pools. It's about 1/6th the weight of such a swimming pool...
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Nevermind, it's about 180 Olymic-sized swimming pools (it's not 900,000 pounds, it's tons) durp
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Buddy, elephants are many times lighter than an olympic swimming pool.
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Large crowds are estimated to accumulate on the route...
Imagine the disappointment: "Mommy, where are the elephants??"
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Around 400 tonnes is crazy.
That's like two of the new Ford F2000 trucks!
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People want to blame. (Score:2)
It's so much easier to get angry about imaginary issues we have no real power over than to deal with reality. Or accept our reality is often, at least partially, our own fault.
To fight against what they've deemed as 'evil' that can't actually harm them back. Safer that way.
Egyptians Needed (Score:4, Informative)
The Kemite Egyptians moved 1300 *ton* stones 600 miles across the land.
Whomever made the structure at Balbek moved a 3000 ton stone from Egypt and up a thousand foot hill to build a foundation.
These guys had expensive tastes.
We can't do that yetagain but hopefully we figure it out soon.
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600 miles across the land.
Didn't they do most of that on rivers though. All the pyramids are very close to where rivers were at the time. Only a tiny bit at the end was on land.
Rocks don't float. And I'm having a hard time imagining how large the area of the boat would have to be to get some of those massive rocks to stay up on the surface of the river, if the river was indeed the transport method.
Unless they used the water as a lubricant. Toss the rocks in, build a road in the riverbed, toss logs under it, which would press upward due to their tendency to float, and you could probably move a *LOT* of weight down the river. Or up the river, if the water wasn't flowing too fast. Th
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The rocks were placed in one or two large ships which displaced more water than what the rocks weighed.
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Baalbek's foundation was made from three 1000+ ton stones, not a single 3000 ton stone. (Each stone was 19x4x4 meters.)
Still an amazing feat, though.
You'd be surprised how well a bunch of people can move something heavy, though (as long as you don't need it to move very fast).
We know how they moved the stones (Score:2)
It's like how we don't know exactly how life started on Earth because there's too many possibilities that all lead to the exact same result of me sitting here typing this out
400 tons (Score:3)
"But I have never beamed up 400 tons before"
"400 tons?"
"It's not just the whales, it's the water!"
Back Intel Is Trucking a 916,000-Pound 'Super Load (Score:2)
That way they can calculate how much power the hotel will need to provide so that they can slightly beat an AMD Ryzen while overlooked during upcoming trade shows on one specific benchmark...
BTW I delivered a "super load" on your mom's face
Re: How dumb can they get? (Score:2)
I just googled that because it sounded made up.
Max takeoff weight of newest versions is over 450 tons.
youtube has some videos about it (Score:1)
Journo school (Score:2)
I have a theory that the standard US journalism curriculum includes a section on measuring things in football fields and other wacko units to prove to the world that an American wrote the article.
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Where the municipal dog catcher puts the stray mutts he catches.
Who is building these assemblies? (Score:2)
Who is building these assemblies?
What companies?
Where are they located?
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"Super loads" Means different things.. (Score:2)
Just saying.
Parade pace (Score:3)
transit process that moves at a “parade pace” of 5-10 miles per hour
I would consider 5 miles/hour to be a fast walking pace.
10 miles/hour is a decent running pace. (You would be doing around an 18 minute 5K race - which in my book is pretty pacey).
I would like to see a marching band at 10 mph.
Slashdotted! (Score:3)
This article took down the entire https://www.transportation.ohi... [ohio.gov] ...
It's the first time I've seen Slashdot cause The Slashdot Effect in years and years...
up ship! (Score:2)
Hollywood suggests half a dozen Chinoook helicopters.
Seriously? A cooler is this hard to move around? (Score:2)
I assumed this was EUV technology or something. Not a 'really, really big + good freezer'. Can't you just assemble more of it on site?
Guess an infographic would be kind of useful for it. A general layout of what is where, and why this can't be done with lots of smaller units or something. Should make it cheaper to repair and maintain if they could too.
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