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EETimes.com - Chinese province pays to get 300-mm wafer fab
Peter Clarke
(06/28/2006 8:35 AM EDT)
LONDON — Shanghai-based foundry chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. has begun construction of a 300-mm wafer fab in Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone, Hubei Province, China — but not for itself.
Although SMIC already owns a 300-mm wafer fab in Beijing, this fab, the first in Central China, is being paid for by the local authorities with SMIC being asked to manage the facility.
The fab announcement was expected. The facility will be financed by an investment company associated with the Hubei provincial government, Wuhan City government and Wuhan East Lake New Technology Development Zone, SMIC said.
Although it is quite usual for local authorities to subsidize wafer fab construction SMIC has apparently pulled off the neat trick of getting the local politicians to pay for the wafer fab entirely. The cost of construction was not disclosed by SMIC. Depending on the size of the fab and how close to the leading edge of manufacturing the owners want to get such a fab could cost between $1 billion and $5 billion.
Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., will own the facility and has engaged SMIC to manage the facility. The fab is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2007, and commercial production is scheduled to start in the first half of 2008. The manufacturing capacity is estimated to be 12,500 wafer starts per month initially with the ability to increase progressively up to 20,000 wafers per month or 25,000 wafers per month in 2009.
The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by numerous political functionaries and Richard Chang, president and chief executive officer of SMIC.
"We recognize the important contribution that SMIC has made to China's semiconductor industry. The Hubei Province will provide the necessary infrastructure support in order to help build up a world-class semiconductor industry in the region," said Miao Wei, Secretary of the Wuhan Municipal Committee, in a statement issued by SMIC.
"We are grateful that the Hubei provincial government and the Wuhan City government have provided such invaluable support to the semiconductor industry in the region," said Richard Chang, president and CEO of SMIC, in the same statement. "We have every confidence in the future prospects of the Wuhan fab."
SMIC has a 300-mm fab in Beijing and plans to build another massive plant in Shanghai. It has an assortment of 200-mm fabs in Shanghai and Tianjin.
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