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> According to a media report, the equipment move-in will be completed by early July and the first phase of the fab will be able to start volume production of
by sevensor 9y ago
> According to a media report, the equipment move-in will be completed by early July and the first phase of the fab will be able to start volume production of DRAM in the third quarter.
Ouch, that's an aggressive schedule. Two months to qualify the equipment and the process, train technicians, establish PM schedules, ramp up testing and QA departments, and run pilot lots? If anything at all goes wrong -- one bad mask, one misaligned robot that scratches all the wafers, one misconfigured test program -- you lose three weeks and have to start over. More if you have to revise a mask. Even more if you don't discover the problem until after burn-in. If they hit volume production in the third quarter, it's going to be at the very end of September, and it's going to be a very generous definition of "volume."
- donald123 9y agoThe move-in started late in 2017. It's almost a year to do all the preparations.
- sevensor 9y agoCould be. The article wasn't totally clear on the status of the fab. Most equipment has a few weeks of work (more for a scanner, less for a wet hood) to be done between when you bolt it to the floor and when you're ready to try it in production, but it might make more sense to wait until the dust (literally) has settled if you're moving in a whole row of tools at once.
- donald123 9y agoDo you really think they will start making things ready after all the equipments are moved in?