Singaporee new foundry

01/01/1999

Singapore`s new foundry Foundry

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) and Philips Electronics, the Netherlands, will build Singapore`s eleventh fab, a $1.2 billion joint venture facility targeted to begin production in late 2000. Construction on the 200-mm facility is slated to begin in early 1999 in Singapore`s Pasir Ris Wafer Fab Park. The facility will have a capacity of 30,000 wafers/month; it will begin production using 0.25- to 0.18-?m processes.

Philips and TSMC will hold 48% and 32% stakes in the venture, and each will take 60% and 40% of the capacity, respectively. The remaining 20% share will be held by a third joint venture partner, EDB Investments of Singapore.