Talk:List of semiconductor fabrication plants

Texas Instruments
What about Texas Instruments? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.91.66.189 (talk • contribs) 18:42, July 15, 2011
 * Samsung and undoubtedly many others are missing as well. –Saruwine (talk) 13:22, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Samsung and Sony are notable exceptions in terms of semiconductor ICs. I don't know enough about LCD technology to see if these qualify as "semiconductor fabs".  This page is new and should probably get an "under construction" wikipedia template.  TelecomNut  (talk) 18:47, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Plant Manufacture
Often one company builds and uses a fab for a few years, then later sells it to some other company. For example, in 1989 Atmel bought a semiconductor fab in Colorado Springs CO from Honeywell. In other words, "the group that first owned the fab"/"first owner" is often different than "the group that currently owns the fab"/"current owner". Do I put "Atmel" or "Honeywell" in the "Plant Manufacture" column for that fab? Or does "Plant Manufacture" mean something different than "first owner" or "current owner"? --DavidCary (talk) 05:08, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Pls update
http://www.mikron.sitronics.com/about/business/vzpp_micron/

Voronezh Semiconductor Plant - Mikron — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.215.204.232 (talk) 08:55, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Motorolla dead?
Should dead companies be here? Did it go to either noew Motorolla? Google? comp.arch (talk) 00:39, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Global Foundries production values appear to be way off
For example, Global Foundries website states that their Dresden Fab has a "Maximum Full Capacity: 80,000 300mm wafers/month" while the Wikipedia table shows 80,000,000/month (table value is 80,000 in thousands of wafers/month).

Fscook (talk) 22:43, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

Hynix
Hynix hasn't operated a fab in Eugene, OR since 2008. To this day, the plant with about 1.2M sq. ft.168.103.50.17 (talk) 01:53, 19 May 2015 (UTC) sits empty and unused.

Yup- and now the vacant fab has been sold to Avago so Hynix doesn't even own the empty fab anymore (I'm pasting ref, not sure why not showing in preview). Should that fab be listed for Avago now or wait until Avago gets it running? If I knew the standard for being on the list I would update it. Kruglick (talk) 20:41, 20 January 2016 (UTC)

Maxim --> Apple
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/12/14/exclusive-apple-buys-former-chip-fab-in-north-san.html

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Microchip reliability And Quality
Are there objective measures of thermodynamic stability for the lithography method, or even measures of reliability after benchmark testing (say, using a microprocessor for thousands of hours under demanding conditions) to see how long the microprocessors of these companies last? I imagine that it is difficult to compare the quality of the microprocessors produced by these various plants due to the differences in what is actually produced, but there must be some way of comparing them.

Features such as Electromigration Resistant Design, and other issues which are related to Industry Standards, would certainly seem important.

Do the different microprocess fabrication plants abide by certain ISO standards of manufacture? If so, I feel that some indication of the ISO standards which each plant follows should be given or referred to in some way within the table. What efforts do each of the manufacturers goto to make sure that what they produce, AND the way that they produce it, follow industry Standard guidelines?
 * Industry Standards

Each plant probably produces many IC designs for different purposes. My primary intention in bringing up this issue is to measure the backwards compatibility of IC designs that each manufacturer produces.
 * List of Integrated Circuit Designs that each manufacturer produces

There are all sorts of risk factors for each Fab. And considering their high economic importance and value, a high level of planning should go into making sure that each fab is located in the safest place that it could be. Could some sort of metrics related to : Floodrisk, Earthquake vulnerability, Air-Traffice vulnerability (in case planes fall out of the sky and the Fab is not underground), Climate change vulnerability, Sea-Level rises, Political/Social/Economic Instability be given so that people can have an idea of how safe each fab is? Issues such as security (who manages the security for each fab) and an analysis of the location of each fab would be obvious factors to consider. Whether a fab is located next to a coastline or near water-prone areas would clearly also be important for Floodrisk. ASavantDude (talk) 14:22, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Risk Factors for each Fab

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SORT
Please be aware of how you enter the information in various fields to ensure columns sort correctly. "Plant Location" should start with COUNTRY, then REGION/STATE, then CITY. "Started Production" should start with YEAR, but it doesn't need the month and date. Thanks. • Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 09:52, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Dynex Semiconductor
Dynex Semiconductor Lincoln, UK    150mm   Bipolar Thyristors, IGBTs ---> added by anonymous edit

Duplicates
There seem to be some duplicates (San Antonio, South Portland, for example). Trigenibinion (talk) 13:48, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Outdated
There seem to be closed fabs in the Open table (Nortel, for example).


 * No updates even on the most important ones like TSMC Fabs 12, 14 and 15 which currently use 7 nm even though the table claims 12 and 16 nm. There is no update on Fab 18 already being in operation (at least partially). I do not have sufficient knowledge to update but I would suggest major caution prior to trusting any of the data here. Tronic2 (talk) 13:59, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

Way incomplete
It seems there are around 1100 fabs. Trigenibinion (talk) 00:21, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * In 2019 there were 231 200mm fabs and 127 300mm fabs in production. Trigenibinion (talk) 01:30, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Data for updating the list
I've got a list of semiconductor fabs that I collected for a GIS project. My starting point was this page, but it was too incomplete for my purposes, so I collected data about almost 300 fabs myself, and hopefully, it can be used here as well. I am new to editing Wikipedia, and personally short on time, but if anyone is willing I can provide the excel sheet and a list of sources. Macnetic (talk) 14:50, 10 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Hey Macnetic, I'd be happy to take a crack at it if you want to provide me with your data - TheNerdyEngineer (talk) 21:16, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Macnetic and TheNerdyEngineer - is this list now inncorporated in the article? It not I would appreciate a copy of that data you collected so I can update the missing fields.
 * Thanks. Aengusstanley (talk) 15:36, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

IDT -> Alpha & Omega
IDT sold their Hillsboro OR fab to Alpha & Omega Semiconductor in 2011

https://www.eetimes.com/ao-power-chip-firm-to-buy-oregon-fab/#

Arghman (talk) 20:31, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Unexplained deletions
Please explain why you are removing portions of the article without explanation. Geoff &#124; Who, me? 23:03, 17 August 2022 (UTC)


 * All of the AMD fabs in Austin and San Antonio seem to be missing as well. 4 have closed and one has become an Infineon fab. 72.48.136.197 (talk) 16:32, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Unsourced fab plants
The list contains many plants which have sources for the stats cited, but also a number of completely unsourced listings. Per WP:V, shouldn't we require reliable sourcing for the plants on this list? Geoff &#124; Who, me? 21:24, 28 September 2022 (UTC)


 * There were no responses, so I went through the list of open plants and removed those facilities/listings/locations that had no references. Feel free to add any back with reliable sources as references. Geoff &#124; Who, me? 18:14, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

New Fab News
https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-historic-investment-100-billion-build-megafab

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2022-10-06-IBM-and-CEO-Arvind-Krishna-Welcome-President-Biden-to-Poughkeepsie-Site,-Company-Plans-to-Invest-20-billion-in-the-Hudson-Valley-Region-Over-10-Years

• Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 07:34, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Compound Semiconductors?
While the title says "Semiconductor fabrication plants" there are no compound semiconductor manufacturers (WIN Semiconductors, Qorvo, UMS, etc.) listed. I would suggest to either change the title (Silicon Semiconductor...) or include those. 129.16.100.194 (talk) 12:58, 18 April 2023 (UTC)