This is a list of semiconductor fabrication plants. A
semiconductor fabrication plant
In the microelectronics industry, a semiconductor fabrication plant (commonly called a fab; sometimes foundry) is a factory where devices such as integrated circuits are manufactured.
Fabs require many expensive devices to function. Estimates ...
is where
integrated circuit
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...
s (ICs), also known as
microchip
An integrated circuit or monolithic integrated circuit (also referred to as an IC, a chip, or a microchip) is a set of electronic circuits on one small flat piece (or "chip") of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Large numbers of tiny ...
s, are manufactured. They are either operated by
Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) who design and manufacture ICs in-house and may also manufacture designs from design-only (
fabless firms), or by
Pure Play foundries, that manufacture designs from fabless companies and do not design their own ICs. Some Pure Play foundries like
TSMC
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC; also called Taiwan Semiconductor) is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's most valuable semiconductor company, the world' ...
offer IC design services, and others, like
Samsung
The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...
, design and manufacture ICs for customers, while also designing, manufacturing and selling their own ICs.
Glossary of terms
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Wafer size – largest wafer diameter that a facility is capable of processing. (Semiconductor wafers are circular.)
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Process technology node – size of the smallest features that the facility is capable of etching onto the wafers.
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Production capacity – a manufacturing facility's nameplate capacity. Generally max wafers produced per month.
* Utilization – the number of wafers that a manufacturing plant processes in relation to its production capacity.
* Technology/products – Type of product that the facility is capable of producing, as not all plants can produce all products on the market.
Open plants
Operating fabs include:
Number of open fabs currently listed here:
(NOTE: Some fabs located in Asia don't use the number 4, or any 2 digit number that adds up to 4, because it is considered bad luck; see
tetraphobia
Tetraphobia () is the practice of avoiding instances of the digit . It is a superstition most common in East Asian nations.
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Rationale
The Chinese word for "four" (, pinyin: sì, jyutping: sei3), sounds quite similar to the word fo ...
.)
Closed plants
Number of closed fabs currently listed here:
See also
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List of Intel manufacturing sites
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List of integrated circuit manufacturers
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Semiconductor device fabrication
Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to manufacture semiconductor devices, typically integrated circuit (IC) chips such as modern computer processors, microcontrollers, and memory chips such as NAND flash and DRAM that are ...
References
Samsung capacity
External links
서버 서버 호스팅 웹 호스팅// IC Insights, Global Semiconductor Alliance, 2013-07-09
Memory and Foundry Account For More Than Half of Worldwide IC Capacity// IC Insights, Global Semiconductor Alliance, 2013-07-09
SEMI World Fab Forecast 2013// SEMI, 2013
Worldwide Location of Wafer Fabs – Interactive Map
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Semiconductor device fabrication
Intel
Motorola
Texas Instruments
Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way ...
Manufacturing plants