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Microchip is to invest $880m in silicon carbide and silicon device manufacture at its Colorado Springs fab. “One significant phase of the expansion is for increased SiC manufacturing for use in automotive, e-mobility, grid infrastructure, aerospace and defence applications,” according to the company. The 850 person Colorado Springs campus currently runs six inch wafers, and is to get eight inch ...

Texas Instruments is to build its next 300mm wafer analogue and embedded processor fab in Utah, next to its existing 300mm fab in the town of Lehi. Once completed, the Lehi fabs will operate as a single unit. “This new fab is part of our long-term, 300mm manufacturing roadmap,” TI COO Haviv Ilan. “With the anticipated growth of semiconductors in ...

I came across a Massachusetts company, THAT Corporation, founded in 1989, that has had its own 4inch foundry in Milpitas California for more than 20 years, making audio semiconductors using a dielectric isolation process. It says: “This four-inch wafer fab gives THAT Corporation the only IC production facility focused primarily on high-performance audio components. While this production fab facility primarily ...

Nottingham-based SFN (Search for the Next) has characterised its novel transistor-based logic, and claims that it matches CMOS performance even when made in older fabs. It would “enable chip designers to produce ICs in older 180nm, and even one micron, geometry fabs with the equivalent performance of CMOS devices made in state-of-the-art plants”, according to the company. “For example, a ...

Renesas is putting Y90bn into a 300mm power semiconductor fab in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture, citing the rise of electric vehicles as motivation. This is the Kofu Factory, closed in October 2014 when it ran 150mm and 200mm wafer lines in its 18,000m2 cleanroom, now to re-open in 2024 “to enhance production capacity for power semiconductors such as IGBTs”, according to the ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor has raised $80m to build a second manufacturing line in the North East of England. “This Series C round is a testament to the potential for our technology,” said CEO Scott White. “Our FlexLogIC-002 fab will deliver significantly higher capacity than our first line. In addition to supporting our commercial ramp, it provides a template for rolling out ...

STMicroelectronics will procure 50% of the energy for its Bouskoura site in Morocco from renewable sources by 2022, compared to 1% in 2020. The electricity of 12 wind turbines in North Morocco will be fed into Morocco’s national power grid and then purchased by ST. These are on a 10ha wind farm near the coast at Oualidia, built by InnoVent and planned ...

X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE is offering SiC foundry services at the scale of silicon, running both processes on the same manufacturing line. The pure-play foundry has added internal SiC epitaxy capabilities to its offering, meaning more of the process chain is accessed through a single source.  The firm says growing demand has necessitated it expand SiC capacity, which has now ...

GaN-on-GaN LED maker Soraa is building a semiconductor fab in Syracuse New York, in partnership with the State of New York. The firm, which has a fab in Fremont California, is working with SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, shell completion is scheduled by the end of this year, and production for the second half of 2016. It was announced in ...

Semefab, the Glenrothes CMOS sensor specialist, has said it expects margins to recover this year after making a loss of £582,930 in 2014 on sales that increased 15% to £9.06 million. In 2013 it made a profit of £127,065. Semefab attributed the losses to circumstances outside its control: Extra staff taken on to cope with a rise in orders were ...