NWL opens fab in South Wales
Newport, Wales
Newport Wafer-Fab Limited has opened its Fab 3 facility in South Wales, which will provide advanced digital and mixed signal technology and customer-specific processes including CMOS and BiCMOS, and digital imaging applications. The facility is a 33,000-square-foot cleanroom, equipped with SMIF for a Class 0.1 environment. It has the capability to produce 8-inch wafers at geometries of 0.25 micron at more than 15,000 wafers/month. — TGW