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450mm Fab Dreams

June 19, 2009
by John
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Listed as the Number 8 Gaffe  by EETimes editors, 450mm took some knocks.

Quoting from the article:

“8.  450-mm fab dreams:    Intel, TSMC and Samsung are separately pushing for 450-mm ”prototype” fabs by 2012. International Sematech is spearheading the effort. Late last year, Sematech updated its 450-mm fab roadmap–amid the worst downturn in the equipment industry. At a Sematech event, no one explained who would pay for the R&D or the 450-mm tools. One analyst said it best: Semiconductor equipment companies should boycott development of tools for the transition to 450-mm wafers, saying chip gear vendors were the losers in the transition to 300-mm wafers and would likely not benefit from the next move to larger wafers.”

The other 9 Gaffes are interesting as well.

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