Semiconductor Fab
Semiconductor Fab: Chips, wafers and a clean room. A fab turns silicon wafers into integrated circuits in a clean room where a speck of dust is a scrapped…
Chips, wafers and a clean room. Make the chips everything else is built around.
A fab turns silicon wafers into integrated circuits in a clean room where a speck of dust is a scrapped chip. The plant costs a fortune and is out of date within a few years, so the business is filling it with orders and moving to the next process in time. Britain has design talent and a few fabs, government backing comes and goes, and the Americans and then the Asians set the price.
- Setup costs
- £29,000,000 to £294,000,000
- Competition
- High
- Category
- Heavy Industry & Energy
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