Data Methodology

Where the data comes from

FabPulse's project dataset was compiled from public information — company announcements, investor-relations newsrooms, SEC filings, and CHIPS for America disclosures from the U.S. Department of Commerce. We don't use private data or paid industry databases. Because the dataset is large and companies revise their plans often, we are checking it against primary sources project by project, largest first — and we tell you, fact by fact, which ones have been checked.

Verification levels

Each project's three key facts — status, schedule, and investment — carry one of three labels:

• Confirmed — stated by the company or an official body: a press release, a filing, a government disclosure, or the company's own website.
• Reported — credible press reporting that the company hasn't officially confirmed. We show it, clearly labeled, and attribute it to the outlet.
• Unverified — not yet checked against a source. Treat as indicative only. This is the default; nothing is marked verified until someone has actually checked it.

Subscribers can see the source, the date we checked it, and any notes behind each label.

Schedule slippage

The Schedule Tracker compares the earliest official schedule target we could verify against the date a project is aiming for today. It is deliberately conservative: if a source says “2028”, we measure from the end of 2028, so a reported slip is a minimum, never an overstatement. A project appears only once we can cite an official earlier target — we don't estimate baselines. This is schedule tracking, not a forecast.

How updates happen

Automated scrapers watch company newsrooms and SEC EDGAR for signals about tracked projects. Detected signals don't go live automatically: they're reviewed against the source and published only once confirmed. Every published change is logged with its source on the project's history and summarized in the weekly briefing. When a source is unclear or conflicting, we hold the change rather than publish it.

What we track per project

Investment size, CHIPS Act funding (where disclosed), technology node, planned and actual high-volume manufacturing (HVM) dates, jobs created, construction status, and location. Not every project discloses every field — a blank field means it hasn't been publicly disclosed, not zero.

Limitations

Companies and agencies revise their own figures after initial announcement — a scope change, a delayed timeline, a funding renegotiation — and FabPulse can lag those revisions until the update is detected and verified. We aggregate disclosed figures as reported; we don't independently audit them. Where a figure spans multiple related project phases or sites, treat it as reported by the company, not as an independently verified allocation.

See something wrong?

Tell us — include the project and a source link if you have one, and we'll check it against the original disclosure: hello@getfabpulse.com.