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I'm not super familiar with this space and am a bit confused - why is this big on automakers and not other chip consumers? Also 300mm seems kind of big for chip
by dgrin91 6y ago
I'm not super familiar with this space and am a bit confused - why is this big on automakers and not other chip consumers? Also 300mm seems kind of big for chips? What am I missing?
- mzs 6y agoBecause that's where they make the 300mm wafers they use for their engine MCUs: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-microprocessors/other-mcus-mpus/superh-risc-engine-family-mcus https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/microcontrollers-micr...
- _fizz_buzz_ 6y ago300 mm is the wafer size. The wafers then get cut into chips. The whole production line has to be made so that it can process the wafer size. For a long time 200 mm wafers was the industry standard. That this is a 300 mm wafer fab implies that it is a high volume, fairly new fab that burned down.