The plant was built next to the company’s old plant in Texas. The area of the clean rooms will reach 60 thousand square meters
TI announced that it has begun initial chip production at RFAB2, a new 300mm analog wafer fab in Richardson, Texas, connected to RFAB1, its 13-year-old 300mm analog fab. In a few years, the duo will be able to produce more than 100 million analog chips every day, TI claims.
“Our investment strategy is to drive these types of products into our latest and greatest manufacturing processes,” Roland Sperlich, VP and general manager of interface products in TI’s analog signal chain business, told EE Times. “This is how we achieve the smaller geometry, the smaller package sizes and lower costs. One of our core values is to lower the cost of semiconductors and their application.”
Both factories operate clean rooms with a floor area of 60 thousand square meters. and 25 km of automatic conveyor track to transfer chip wafers smoothly between them.
Later in the interview, Sperlich described the noise canceling products for the automotive industry and even for the space environment.