A 300mm semiconductor wafer, which is the maximum wafer size in use as of 2024. Although 18-inch (450mm) wafers have been developed, the billions in cost to change all the chip-making machinery in ...

Friday 10 January 2025 China's 12-inch wafer fabs ramp up output, resulting in price war over mature processes Chinese foundries have stepped up 12-inch fab capacity expansions, which is poised to ...

Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. – December 7, 2015 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today submitted an application to the Investment Commission of Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs for an investment project ...

June 23 , 2022 -- According to TrendForce data, global wafer foundry capacity will increase by approximately 14% annually in 2022. Since expanding 8-inch capacity is not cost-effective and its growth ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Dagang Nexchange Bhd (DNeX) plans to build a new 12-inch wafer fabrication facility in Malaysia in a joint effort with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (or Foxconn) remain in progress.

The 227kg object was reportedly found by a contractor at the Nanzih Technology Industrial Park in Kaohsiung – a 12-inch wafer plant the chipmaker is currently building. A unit of the Taiwanese ...

About 70 to 75 percent of the company’s reclaimed wafers are used for advanced chips with leading process technologies, it said. Phoenix plans to expand its capacity by about 23 percent to 800,000 ...

UMC runs a 12-inch fab in the region, supporting nodes from 90nm to 14nm ... For advanced nodes, TrendForce believes most current wafer starts are for inventory preparation, and the short downtime or ...