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SkyWater bought a primarily 200nm, but 65nm capable fab in Minnesota for 30M in 2017. https://www.eenewsanalog.com/news/ceo-interview-sonderman-skywaters-techn
by c2h5oh 6y ago
SkyWater bought a primarily 200nm, but 65nm capable fab in Minnesota for 30M in 2017.
https://www.eenewsanalog.com/news/ceo-interview-sonderman-skywaters-technology-foundry-model https://www.eenewsanalog.com/news/ceo-interview-sonderman-sk...
Granted, it's tooled for 200mm wafers (300mm are the standard right now), but it's still significantly cheaper than expected.
Prices are likely to ramp up really quickly when you get to the 65->45nm jump - that's when Intel started using multiple patterning.
- baybal2 6y agoAnd that was an amazing deal given the glut at 200mm being apparent even back then.