Working arrays were cut from the wafer and mounted in a lead frame, bonded with gold wires, and fiat lux. The whole thing must have been a great experience in modern fab methods, and [emach1ne ...

300mm wafer fabs have accounted for only 10% of total fab closures since 2009. Qimonda was the first company to close a 300mm wafer fab after it went out of business in early 2009. Three 150mm wafer ...

One example is a 300mm wafer fab operated by Sony that closed, but was retrofitted and has returned to service manufacturing image sensors for the company. Figure 1 shows that 40% of fab closures ...

March 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announced it has engaged Macquarie Group to oversee the marketing and sale of its wafer fabrication facility (“Fab 2 ...

The industry is on pace to have more than 200 300mm fab lines in operation by 2026, forecasts Knometa’s Global Wafer Capacity 2022 At end of 2021, there were 153 semiconductor fabs processing 300mm ...

The government has ordered Chinese-owned technology firm Nexperia to sell at least 86% of its stake in Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) on grounds of national security. In an order [PDF] published on ...

Cambridge-based Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened the UK's first 300mm wafer fab in Durham, just four months after it closed a record Series D funding round. Pragmatic's new line ...