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In addition to this new 300 mm fab, Bosch already has one 150 mm and one 200 mm fab in Germany. These are mostly for analog stuff, SiC power electronics and MEM

• rurban 5y ago
  You are citing wafer sizes. Fabs are measured in mask sizes, the density, not the overall radius. The denser, the higher frequency you can run it, so they won't get that hot. This is a 65nm fab, still running for the last year at half density at 130nm. Neighbors in Dresden have much better fabs,Infinion with 90nm and Global Foundries (ex-AMD) with 22nm. So the Bosch Asics will run at roughly C64 speeds. Good enough for consumer cars.
  • formerly_proven 5y ago
    > You are citing wafer sizes. Fabs are measured in mask sizes, the density, not the overall radius. The fact that these are 150 and 200 mm fabs tells us that these are using machinery from the 80s or early 90s, respectively. So these fabs are probably using several-hundred nm processes. > have much better fabs ... So the Bosch Asics will run at roughly C64 speeds. Good enough for consumer cars. Maybe look at Bosch's semiconductor portfolio? They're not in the business of making commodity parts like processors or MCUs which benefit from being on small nodes. They do specialty mixed-signal, power ASICs and MEMS devices. Smaller is not always better. This is easy to overlook when "silicon" is only though of as CPUs and GPUs.