{"id":9945,"date":"2009-07-15T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.legitreviews.com:\/\/af4dfd03fcf99b606de17b10aeb9f200"},"modified":"2009-07-15T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T15:10:18","slug":"globalfoundries-talks-about-fab-2-and-renewed-focus-on-300mm-technology-at-semicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=9945","title":{"rendered":"GLOBALFOUNDRIES Talks About Fab 2 and Renewed Focus on 300mm Technology at Semicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At SEMICON West this week there is significant buzz around Fab 2 and what it represents for GLOBALFOUNDRIES, for the US and for the global semiconductor industry as a whole. Tom Sonderman, vice president of GLOBALFOUNDRIES&#39; Manufacturing Systems and Technology, also called for a renewed focus On 300mm manufacturing during a panel discussion on market strategies, technologies, capital spending, and other strategic plans of the world&#39;s major chip foundries. GLOBALFOUNDRIES has a July 24th groundbreaking planned for Fab 2 in Saratoga County, NY.<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legitreviews.com\/images\/news\/2009\/semicon.jpg\" alt=\"GLOBALFOUNDRIES Tom Sonderman\" title=\"GLOBALFOUNDRIES Tom Sonderman\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The technology in Fab 2 will be absolutely state of the art. Our current plan is to ramp it on 28nm technology in 2H 2012 and then make a quick transition to 22nm, in a similar fashion to what we did with Fab 36 for AMD in Dresden. Ramping on a mature technology generation reduces significant risk in bringing a new fab successfully online and into production. Of course Fab 2 will also come stacked with the latest generation of our patented APM software to ensure maximum automation, control and predictability in rapidly ramping production for our customers at mature yield.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At SEMICON West this week there is significant buzz around Fab 2 and what it represents for GLOBALFOUNDRIES, for the US and for the global semiconductor industry as a whole. Tom Sonderman, vice president of GLOBALFOUNDRIES&#39; Manufacturing Systems and Technology, also called for a renewed focus On 300mm manufacturing during a panel discussion on market strategies, technologies, capital spending, and other strategic plans of the world&#39;s major chip foundries. GLOBALFOUNDRIES has a July 24th groundbreaking planned for Fab 2 in Saratoga County, NY.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legitreviews.com\/images\/news\/2009\/semicon.jpg\" alt=\"GLOBALFOUNDRIES Tom Sonderman\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The technology in Fab 2 will be absolutely state of the art. Our current plan is to ramp it on 28nm technology in 2H 2012 and then make a quick transition to 22nm, in a similar fashion to what we did with Fab 36 for AMD in Dresden. Ramping on a mature technology generation reduces significant risk in bringing a new fab successfully online and into production. Of course Fab 2 will also come stacked with the latest generation of our patented APM software to ensure maximum automation, control and predictability in rapidly ramping production for our customers at mature yield.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=9945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}