Flemish fab up for grabs
Santa Clara, CA
The Flemish government and Meissner+Wurst GmbH+Co. (Stutt gard, Germany) have developed a novel concept aimed at making it simple and cost-effective for microelectronic companies to locate or expand their businesses in Belgium. The Flanders Foreign Investment Office (FFIO) and M+W plan to make pre-designed fabs available for lease or sale in the northern Belgium region. This would help reduce the extremely high up-front costs associated with building a fab, enabling semiconductor manufacturers to concentrate on their core business functions.
The two parties say they have already designed a (model) state-of-