List of semiconductor fabrication plants

This is a list of semiconductor fabrication plants, factories where integrated circuits (ICs), also known as microchips, are manufactured. They are either operated by Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs) that design and manufacture ICs in-house and may also manufacture designs from design-only (fabless firms), or by pure play foundries that manufacture designs from fabless companies and do not design their own ICs. Some pure play foundries like TSMC offer IC design services, and others, like Samsung, design and manufacture ICs for customers, while also designing, manufacturing and selling their own ICs.

Glossary of terms

  • Wafer size – largest wafer diameter that a facility is capable of processing. (Semiconductor wafers are circular.)
  • Process technology node – size of the smallest features that the facility is capable of etching onto the wafers.
  • Production capacity – a manufacturing facility's nameplate capacity. Generally max wafers produced per month.
  • Utilization – the number of wafers that a manufacturing plant processes in relation to its production capacity.
  • Technology/products – Type of product that the facility is capable of producing, as not all plants can produce all products on the market.

Open plants

Operating fabs include foundries from TSMC, GlobalFoundries, Silex Microsystems, Tower Semiconductor, Advanced Micro Foundry, VTT, SilTerra and IHP Microelectronics amongst others.

Number of open fabs currently listed here: 474

(NOTE: Some fabs located in Asia don't use the number 4, or any 2 digit number that adds up to 4, because it is considered bad luck; see tetraphobia.)

Closed plants

Company Plant Name Plant Location Plant Cost (in US$ Billions) Started Production Wafer Size (mm) Process Technology Node (nm) Production Capacity (Wafers/Month) Technology / Products Ended Production
BelGaN Group (formerly ON Semiconductor) (formerly AMI Semiconductor) (formerly Alcatel Microelectronics) (formerly Mietec) Oudenaarde Belgium,
East Flanders,
Oudenaarde
150, 200 3000, 2000–350 GaN, mixed-signal CMOS, BCD foundry 2024
VEF Soviet Union,
Latvia,
Riga
1960 Semi-secret government semiconductor fab and a major research center separated from the Russian military manufacturing complex by the collapse of the USSR. 1999
Tower Semiconductor (formerly Micron) Fab 4 Japan,
Hyōgo,
Nishiwaki
0.450 1992 200 95 60,000 DRAM, foundry 2014
Tower Semiconductor – Tacoma China,
Jiangsu,
Nanjing
halted, bankruptcy in June 2020 200, 300 (planned) Foundry 2020
Fujian Jinhua (JHICC) F2 China,
Fujian,
Jinjiang
5.65 2018 (planned) 300 22 60,000 DRAM 2018
Decoma F2 China,
Jiangsu,
Huai'an
Under construction 300 20,000 2020
Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing (HSMC) China,
Hubei,
Wuhan
2019 (halted) 300 14, 7 30,000 Foundry 2020
Tsinghua Unigroup – Unigroup Guoxin (Unigroup, Xi'an UniIC Semiconductors Co., Ltd.) SZ China,
Guangdong,
Shenzhen
12.5 Planned 300 50,000 DRAM 2019 (just plan)
TSMC Fab 1 Taiwan
Hsinchu,
Baoshan
1987 150 2000-800 20,000 Foundry, CMOS, BiCMOS 2001, March 9
UMC Fab 1 Japan,
Chiba,
Tateyama
0.543 1997 200 40,000 Foundry 2012
SK Hynix E-4 United States,
Oregon,
Eugene
1.3 2007 200 30,000 DRAM 2008
Symetrix – Panasonic Brazil 0.9 (planned) planned FeRAM (just plan)
Rohm (formerly Data General) United States,
California,
Sunnyvale
Kioxia Fab 1 (at Yokkaichi Operations) Japan,
Mie,
Yokkaichi
1992 200 400 35,000 SRAM, DRAM 2001, September
NEC Livingston United Kingdom,
Scotland,
West Lothian,
Livingston
4.5 (total) 1981 150, 200 800–350, 250, 180 30,000 CMOS, DRAM, SRAM, MCUs, ASICs, DSPs 2001, April
LFoundry (de) (formerly Renesas Electronics) Germany,
Bavaria,
Landshut
1992 200 2011
LFoundry (de) (formerly Atmel) France,
Bouches-du-Rhône,
Rousset
? 200 25.000
Atmel (formerly Siemens) Fab 9 United Kingdom,
Tyne and Wear,
North Tyneside
1.53 1998 DRAM 2007
EI Niš Ei Poluprovodnici Serbia,
Nišava,
Niš
1962 100 2000
Plessey Semiconductors (formerly Plus Semi) (formerly MHS Electronics) (formerly Zarlink) (formerly Mitel) (formerly Plessey Semiconductors) UK,
Devon,
Plymouth
100, 150 800, 500 8,000 Bipolar, ASICs, linear ICs
Telefunken Semiconductors (de) Heilbronn, HNO-Line Germany,
Baden-Württemberg,
Heilbronn
0.125 1993 100, 150 800 10,000 Bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS, GaAs, SiGe, ASICs, ASSPs, MCUs, discrete, optoelectronics 2015
Qimonda Richmond United States,
Virginia,
Richmond
3 2005 300 65 38,000 DRAM 2009, January
STMicroelectronics (formerly Nortel) United States,
California,
San Diego,
Rancho Bernardo
100, 150 800, 500 NMOS, CMOS, BiCMOS 2002
Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) Toulouse Fab France,
Haute-Garonne,
Toulouse
1969 150 650 Automotive 2012
Freescale Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) (formerly Tohoku Semiconductor) Sendai Fab Japan,
Miyagi,
Sendai
1987 150, 200 500 DRAM, microcontrollers, analog, sensors 2009?
Agere Systems (formerly Lucent) (formerly AT&T) Spain,
Madrid,
Tres Cantos
0.67 1987 500, 350, 300 CMOS 2001
GMT Microelectronics (formerly Commodore Semiconductor) (formerly MOS Technology) United States,
Pennsylvania,
Audubon
1969
1976
1995
1000 1976
1992
2001
Integrated Device Technology United States,
California,
Salinas
1985 150 800-350 2002
ON Semiconductor (formerly Cherry Semiconductor) United States,
Rhode Island,
East Greenwich
100, 150 1400 10,000 Bipolar, BiCMOS, Linear ICs and ASICs 2004
ON Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) United States,
Arizona,
Phoenix
150 5000-500 12,000 MOS, power discrete 2011
ON Semiconductor (formerly Motorola) Aizu Plant Japan,
Aizu
100, 150 1200, 1000 40,000 CMOS, MCUs, logic and smart power ICs 2012
ON Semiconductor (formerly Truesense Imaging, Kodak) Rochester United States,
New York,
Rochester
150 CCDs and Image Sensors 2020
Intel Fab 8 Israel,
Jerusalem District,
Jerusalem
1985 150 Microprocessors, Chipsets, Microcontrollers 2007
Intel Fab D2 United States,
California,
Santa Clara
1989 200 130 8,000 Microprocessors, Chipsets, Flash memory 2009
Intel Fab 17 United States,
Massachusetts,
Hudson
1998 200 130 Chipsets and other 2014
Fairchild Semiconductor (formerly National Semiconductor) West Jordan United States,
Utah,
West Jordan
1977 150 2015
Texas Instruments HFAB United States,
Texas,
Houston
1967 150 2013
Texas Instruments (formerly Silicon Systems) Santa Cruz United States,
California,
Santa Cruz
0.250 1980 150 800 80,000 HDD 2001
Texas Instruments (formerly National Semiconductor) Arlington United States,
Texas,
Arlington
1985 150 80000, 35000 2010
Unknown (fortune 500 company) United States,
East Coast
150 1,600 MEMS 2016
Diodes Incorporated (formerly Lite-On Power Semiconductor) (formerly AT&T) KFAB United States,
Missouri,
Lee's Summit
1994 130 2017
Qorvo (formerly TriQuint Semiconductor) (formerly Sawtek) United States,
Florida,
Apopka
SAW filters 2019
GlobalFoundries Abu Dhabi UAE,
Emirate of Abu Dhabi,
Abu Dhabi
6.8 (planned) 2016 (planned) 300 180-110 45,000 Foundry 2011 (plan stopped)
GlobalFoundries – Chengdu China,
Sichuan,
Chengdu
10 (planned) 2018 (planned), 2019 (second phase) 300 180/130 (cancelled), 22 (second phase) 20,000 (85,000 planned) Foundry, FDSOI (second phase) 2020 (was idle)
Tondi Elektroonika A-1381 Soviet Union,
Estonia,
Harju,
Tallinn
1958 Radio equipment, Transisors, Photodiode 1978
Intersil (formerly Harris Semiconductor, formerly GE, formerly RCA) United States,
Ohio,
Findlay
1954 100, 125 2000, 1500, 1200 60,000 CMOS, bipolar, BiCMOS, Semiconductors, Optoelectronics, Integrated Circuits, Research 2003
Microchip (formerly General Instrument) Fab 1 United States, Arizona, Chandler 125 5,000
Microchip (formerly Digital Equipment Corporation, formerly GTE Corporation) Fab 2 United States, Arizona, Tempe 200 250 20,000
Microchip (formerly Matsushita Semiconductor Corporation of America) Fab 3 United States, Washington, Puyallup field-programmable microcontrollers, serial EEPROMs, and microperipheral products

Number of closed fabs currently listed here: 49

See also

  • List of Intel manufacturing sites
  • List of integrated circuit manufacturers
  • Semiconductor device fabrication

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