Bosch builds €550 million chip plant

The Bosch Group is investing €550 million in the construction of a new manufacturing facility for 200mm semiconductors at its site in
The plant will have a total capacity of up to 1,000 silicon wafers per day, equivalent to a daily production volume of up to one million microchips. Bosch has been manufacturing 150mm semiconductors in
Semiconductor and micromachined chips from
The new Reutlingen plant will mainly be geared to the ‘small power process’, in which integrated circuits combine on one chip highly sensitive signal processing and high voltage circuits for the control of high-performance actuators. The chips must perform reliably under the especially tough thermal and mechanical loads experienced during driving.
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