Tl Richardson Fab Expands Analog Capacity

摘要

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI, Dallas) will need to buy epitaxial deposition and a few other "minor" tools to fit out its fab in Richardson, Texas. But nearly all of the equipment for the first phase of the RFAB will come from the closed Qimonda DRAM fab near Richmond, Va., said Kevin Ritchie, TI's senior vice president of manufacturing and technology.rnThe RFAB is expected to be the first analog fab using 300 mm wafers when it begins production late next year. Purchased for $172.5M, TI will take possession of the 300 mm tools in mid-October and immediately begin moving the equipment into the RFAB, located 11 miles north of Dallas.