Fairchild ramps fourth fab line in Korea for power devices
Semiconductor Business News
(11/06/00, 05:02:46 PM EDT)
PUCHON, South Korea -- Fairchild Semiconductor International Corp. today dedicated a new 6-inch wafer processing line here to increase the company's output of power semiconductors for global markets. The $80 million frontend will be capable of processing 17,000 wafers a month during the first year of production, said the South Portland, Maine-based company.
"The new wafer fab capacity forms an important part of the company's plan to increase our portfolio of higher-margin power and interface products, which now represent about 48% of our trade sales," said KirkPond, president, chairman and chief executive officer of Fairchild. The company now has four wafer-processing frontends at its Puchon complex, which was acquired in 1999 from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for $450 million last year (see April 14, 1999, story).
The new line has a Class 1 cleanroom, and it will use Fairchild's planar DMOS technologies, including 30-volt logic as well as standard BCDMOS and BiCMOS processes. Fairchild said the new line will produce power devices, such as MOSFETs and IGBT discrete products, standard ICs, and analog circuit for motor-control applications.
Since its acquisition, the Puchon plant has manufactured more than 10 billion semiconductor products for Fairchild. Most of the devices have been for power control and power protection applications in computers, televisions, cellular phones, radios, pagers, automotive systems, and industrial control systems. |
