But consider the benefit - it is in a seismically active area, so they will have plenty of excuses to fake low supply and jack prices up, rather than having to come up with flimsy ones line "we ran out of nitrogen".
Oh yeah, absolutely, surrounded from all sides by active fault lines and underwater volcanoes. A.k.a the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Granted that Singapore is not on the edge of the underlying plate, so strong earthquakes are fairly rare, but it is still on one of the most seismically active plates, which is also rather small, so earthquake waves reach it routinely. Not something that may threaten infrastructure and lives, but chip making is immensely more delicate.
It's not a new fab, it's an expansion. It's mainly aimed at keeping wafer output flat with future nodes and not at capacity expansion. It will be built in phases, first phase expected to be completed by summer 2019 with initial wafer output in Q4.
They are also building out incremental cleanroom space in Hiroshima for DRAM and that should be available for production in early 2019. This one would be to enable the transition to 1y.
It's basically a new fab at the same site as another. New buildings, new cleanroom space. It's not like theres an exiting building and new tools are going into it. There is no room to just add on to the existing fab space. There is more owned property where it will be built.
What is wrong in this article is that this will be the 4th fab/expansion (whatever people want to call it) in Singapore. Former Tech Singapore Fab 7, now Micron Fab10W is a few miles away from Fab 10N/X/Y
The important question is - will more wafers be processed through the combinef space. I believe the answer is no, same wafer count. They need more cleanroom bevause new processes takes longer, and new machinery takes more space. Correct me if I'm wrong?
That fab already produces all of Micron/Intel's (Unless Intel Fab68 is running yet?) 3DNAND, so yes this will add to the capacity. I believe the prior expansion already covered the wafer count loss from 2D->3D transition.
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fazalmajid - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
Strange to be building a fab in such a land-starved place.iter - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
But consider the benefit - it is in a seismically active area, so they will have plenty of excuses to fake low supply and jack prices up, rather than having to come up with flimsy ones line "we ran out of nitrogen".Retycint - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
Singapore is definitely not seismically activeSource: Live in Singapore
iter - Saturday, April 7, 2018 - link
Oh yeah, absolutely, surrounded from all sides by active fault lines and underwater volcanoes. A.k.a the Pacific Ring of Fire.Granted that Singapore is not on the edge of the underlying plate, so strong earthquakes are fairly rare, but it is still on one of the most seismically active plates, which is also rather small, so earthquake waves reach it routinely. Not something that may threaten infrastructure and lives, but chip making is immensely more delicate.
Dizoja86 - Saturday, April 7, 2018 - link
Iter just came up with the laziest excuse for a conspiracy theory I've seen in ages.Spatty - Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - link
1 - Taxes.2 - Large talent base.
jjj - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
It's not a new fab, it's an expansion.It's mainly aimed at keeping wafer output flat with future nodes and not at capacity expansion.
It will be built in phases, first phase expected to be completed by summer 2019 with initial wafer output in Q4.
They are also building out incremental cleanroom space in Hiroshima for DRAM and that should be available for production in early 2019. This one would be to enable the transition to 1y.
Spatty - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
It's basically a new fab at the same site as another. New buildings, new cleanroom space. It's not like theres an exiting building and new tools are going into it. There is no room to just add on to the existing fab space. There is more owned property where it will be built.What is wrong in this article is that this will be the 4th fab/expansion (whatever people want to call it) in Singapore. Former Tech Singapore Fab 7, now Micron Fab10W is a few miles away from Fab 10N/X/Y
Bob-o - Saturday, April 7, 2018 - link
The important question is - will more wafers be processed through the combinef space. I believe the answer is no, same wafer count. They need more cleanroom bevause new processes takes longer, and new machinery takes more space. Correct me if I'm wrong?Spatty - Tuesday, April 10, 2018 - link
That fab already produces all of Micron/Intel's (Unless Intel Fab68 is running yet?) 3DNAND, so yes this will add to the capacity. I believe the prior expansion already covered the wafer count loss from 2D->3D transition.plasma etch man - Monday, August 20, 2018 - link
hello Spatty 1 question is does Fab7 also produce 3D NAND?SonicIce - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
There is a typo in the third sentence, it says "I addition". Thank you and good article.bluehawk - Monday, January 25, 2021 - link
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