SOI Consortium member GlobalFoundries is teaming up with the Chengdu municipality to build a fab in western China offering FD-SOI (see press release here). The partners plan to establish a 300mm fab to support the growth of the Chinese semiconductor market and to meet accelerating global customer demand for 22FDX®, GF’s 22nm FD-SOI process technology. The Chengdu fab is expected to begin volume production of 22FDX in 2019.
In Germany, GF plans to grow the overall FD-SOI capacity of its Fab 1 facility in Dresden by 40 percent by 2020. GF says they need the new capacity to meet demand for IoT, smartphone processors, automotive electronics, and other battery-powered wirelessly connected applications. Dresden will continue to be the center for FDX technology development. GF engineers in Dresden are already developing the company’s next-generation 12FDXTM technology, with customer product tape-outs expected to begin in the middle of 2018.
In Singapore, GF will also add new capabilities to its industry-leading RF-SOI technology.
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