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RSS fabsNEC set to have its fabs nabbed
News Global electronics contract manufacturer Solectron has announced its intention to buy NEC Ibaragi's factory operations. NEC Ibaragi is the large-scale computer server and workstation business of the NEC /Corporation based in Japan. [23 Oct 2001]
Internet Brings Fabs One Step Closer to Perfect World
White Paper In this theoretical utopia of efficiency, every part of the supply chain would benefit from such integration of information. Deliveries of silicon wafers and chemicals would be managed under the same manufacturing execution system to which... [25 Feb 2004]
HP Case Study: ST Assembly Test Services (STATS)
White Paper They needed to manage multiple workstations and track information between machines within the fab/multiple fabs. ST Assembly Test Services (STATS) is a leading provider of full turnkey semiconductor test and assembly services for fabless companies. [22 Mar 2005]
Wireless in the Factory: Improving Productivity with Wireless Mobile Devices
White Paper To develop this strategy, our Information Technology (IT) and Fab Sort Manufacturing (FSM) groups conducted a test to determine how the use of PDAs affected productivity in their fabs. At Intel, they’re using mobile devices, such as personal... [03 Jul 2008]
China's entry will cause next downturn in chips market
News Fabs get more expensive as Moore's Law progresses, said to Chang, who said it takes $30m to design a complex chip in the current generation of technology, referring to chips with features about 90 nanometers (billionths of a metre) in length. [16 Sep 2003]
Intel hypes 45-nanometre chip
News Mark Bohr, director of process technology at Intel, referring to chip factories, known as 'fabs', said: "They aren't out of the fab yet but they are in the fab. Intel has completed the design of Penryn, a 45-nanometre chip that will be out toward... [30 Nov 2006]
Chips market will struggle until 2003
News As a result, major chipmakers such as AMD, Infineon, Intel, Motorola and Texas Instruments are all tightening their belts, with some even closing or putting off construction of new fabs, the plants where semiconductors are made. [01 Nov 2001]
Intel's Barrett: This year, we'll be mostly doing chips...
News The conversion - which will give Intel five 300mm fabs when completed in 2005 - will cost about $2bn but will pay dividends in higher productivity. Intel this year will focus on what it does best: crank out chips and expand factory capacity. [19 Feb 2003]
Siemens denies semiconductor crisis
News Dr Mitul Mehta, senior European research manager at Frost and Sullivan, said: "The cycle that has emerged consists of companies building fabs (chip manufacturing plants) a year ago on predictions that the semiconductor market would grow. [23 Jul 1998]
Intel invests $10m in UK's Bookham Technology
News Bookham owns its own small fabrication facility in Oxfordshire, but Rickman said the company is not ruling out the future use of CMOS fabs owned by Intel. Bookham Technology, which produces optical networking technology, has received a $10m equity... [24 Nov 1998]
'Strained silicon': How it works
News Chips made on the 90-nanometer process will first come from the company's fabs in Oregon and later from the facilities in Ireland and New Mexico, which are geared more for mass production. By Michael Kanellos [13 Aug 2002]
Intel set to build $400m testing plant in India
News Testing and assembly facilities also cost less than fabs, which can cost $3bn to build. Intel plans to build a testing and packaging facility in India - capitalising on a growing local market and inexpensive labour, according to one government... [15 Jun 2005]
Intel to replace silicon
News The gate dielectric on chips coming out of Intel’s fabs next year will only be four to five atoms thick, David said. Moore's Law is alive and well, but Intel is changing its basic semiconductor recipes to make sure it stays that way. [05 Nov 2003]
Intel chief promises the chips will continue to go down
News Intel CEO Craig Barrett has said the chip giant will continue to cut processor prices, but claimed the reductions were due to improvements on manufacturing techniques and not due to the weakness of the semiconductor market. [06 Aug 2001]
A tale of two chippies
Comment The cost of running fabs - the plants where chips are made - is huge. Yet because they are both often bracketed as 'chips companies', it's interesting to consider their relative well-being. Motorola has been hogging the headlines this week. [11 Apr 2001]
