Wacker unit builds 300-mm silicon wafer plant in Germany

摘要

Wacker Siltronic AG, one fo the world's leading suppliers of silicon wafers to the semiconductor industry, and a unit of Wacker Chemie GmbH, has announced plans to spend Euro 430 million to build a 300-millimeter wafer production facility in Freiberg in the German state of Saxony. The plant's initial capacity will be 60,000 wafers per month when production begins in August 2004. Production capacity could ultimately be increased to 150,000 wafers per month, it said.