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Comment: Can Germany keep Europe in the FD-SOI game?
by Richard Wilson - Electronics Weekly, Jul. 27, 2015 –
With FD-SOI now being proposed as the next generation semiconductor process technology, the epicentre for semiconductor manufacturing in Europe is shifting to Germany.
With the eclipse of both STMicroelectronics and NXP as major European manufacturers of chips, the new momentum for investment in wafer fabs seems to be coming from Germany alone.
That is if we class Imec in Belgium and France's CEA-Leti as advanced semiconductor research facilities rather than commercial IC production wafer fabs.
In the past five years, Infineon has invested around €600m in its Dresden fab.
This month international chip foundry Globalfoundries extravagantly heralded the opening of "a new chapter in the Silicon Saxony story, building on almost 20 years of sustained investment in Europe's largest semiconductor fab".
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