Cypress Puts Wafer Fab Up for Sale

by Peter Clarke - EETimes

LONDON, Dec. 16, 2015 – 

ATREG Inc. (Seattle, Wash.), a specialist vendor of wafer fabs and other technology assets, has been retained by Cypress Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) to help sell its 200mm wafer fab in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Cypress has operated the fab since it acquired it from Control Data VTC in 1990.

The automotive-qualified fab has a clean room floor space of 80,000 square feet and is capable of 16,700 wafer starts per month, according to ATREG. The sales agent adds that there is the possibility of a multi-year supply contract back to Cypress and to license process IP for the company.

The fab is currently being used by Cypress Foundry Solutions and operates at manufacturing nodes between 0.35-micron and 90nm.

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