[7952]

It has an international airport, intermodal rail freight depot and interstate highways.

I would guess that raw materials can be transported by road or rail. Access to a waterway is sometimes needed for very heavy indivisible parts (not sure if this is commons for fabs) but that is unlikely to be a regular occurrence. Just drive it down the interstate with a police escort at 2am.

[qsmi]

I am pretty shocked but I guess ASML delivers by 747. [1][2] But they do seem to know what they're doing. :)

"The current generation of EUV machines are already, to put it bluntly, kind of bonkers. Each one is roughly the size of a bus and costs $150 million. It contains 100,000 parts and 2 kilometers of cabling. Shipping the components requires 40 freight containers, three cargo planes, and 20 trucks."

[1] https://technical-news.net/euv-lithography-asml-delivers-100... [2] https://www.wired.com/story/asml-extreme-ultraviolet-lithogr...

[bduerst]

>Amid the recent chip shortage, triggered by the pandemic’s economic shock waves, ASML’s products have become central to a geopolitical struggle between the US and China, with Washington making it a high priority to block China's access to the machines. The US government has successfully pressured the Dutch not to grant the export licenses needed to send the machines to China, and ASML says it has shipped none to the country.

Fascinating

[cududa]

Plus Lake Erie gives you access to the Atlantic. Port of Cleveland got a huge update 10+ years ago and is still only used at about 7% capacity

[nwiswell]

> needed for very heavy indivisible parts (not sure if this is commons for fabs)

It is not common. Semiconductor equipment is generally designed to be sent via air freight and assembled on site.

Some of the supporting operations (water and air purification plants, on-site chemical production, LN2 production, etc) may require some large parts but that's a case-by-case basis and probably avoidable.