Strategic Allicances for highly efficient 300 mm Waferfabs

摘要

State-of-the-Art waferfabs require a grwoing demand for integrated and highly efficient system solutions in terms of investment costs, running costs and yield improvement. It will be explained which factos are determinant to the profitability of a waferfab. Making the change from 200 mm to 300 mm wafers together with the jump to 0.25#mu#m technology will be the challenge the entire semiconductor industry within the coming years. The author explains why jump 300 mm is so critical in terms of technology and efficienty. The investment costs which are necessary to cope with the 300mm challenge are more than any sigle company can handle. This is why strategic alliances have to be founded. The impacts are obvious: systems or turnkey supplier to the semiconductor industry have to contribute as well as the chipmanufactuers to ease the burden of huge investment costs.