X-FAB and Soitec team up to offer SmartSiC™ at Lubbock plant, USA
22 Maggio 2024 - 5:46PM
X-FAB and Soitec team up to offer SmartSiC™ at Lubbock plant, USA
X-FAB and Soitec team up to offer SmartSiC™
at Lubbock plant, USA
- Partnership to bring power devices based on Soitec’s
cutting-edge SmartSiC™ silicon carbide wafers to X-FAB’s extensive
fabless client network
Tessenderlo (Belgium) and Bernin
(France), May 22, 2024 — X-FAB (Euronext Paris), a global
pure-play foundry leader serving a large variety of fabless
customers, and Soitec (Euronext Paris), a leader in designing and
manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials, will begin work
to offer Soitec’s SmartSiC™ wafers for the production of silicon
carbide power devices at X-FAB’s plant in Lubbock, Texas.
This collaboration follows the successful
completion of the assessment phase, during which silicon carbide
(SiC) power devices were manufactured at X-FAB Texas on 150mm
SmartSiC™ wafers. Soitec will offer X-FAB’s customers easy access
to the SmartSiC™ substrate through a joint supply chain consignment
model.
X-FAB is the pioneer and leader of the foundry
model in the fast-growing SiC market. Silicon carbide (SiC) is a
disruptive compound semiconductor material with intrinsic
properties providing superior performance and efficiency over
silicon in power applications.
SmartSiC™ is a proprietary Soitec technology
based on the company’s SmartCut™ process, in which a thin layer of
a high-quality monocrystalline (mono-SiC) ‘donor’ wafer is
split off and bonded to a low resistivity polycrystalline
(poly-SiC) ‘handle’ wafer. The resulting substrate offers improved
device performance and manufacturing yields. The process allows
multiple re-uses of a single donor wafer, significantly reducing
cost and related CO2 emissions.
In this fast-growing market, Soitec is ramping
production of SmartSiC™ substrates at its new plant of Bernin, near
Grenoble (France). X-FAB is increasing production capacity for SiC
devices at the Lubbock plant. The use of the SmartSiC™ substrate
enables X-FAB’s customers to design smaller devices, resulting in
efficiency improvements through an increased number of dies per
wafer. The benefit of reduced CO2 emissions from the substrate
manufacturing process will also contribute to X-FAB's initiative to
reduce its overall carbon footprint.
Sophie Le-Guyadec VP Procurement of X-FAB,
states: “As the leading SiC foundry, we want to provide our
customers the full range of opportunities to design innovative and
robust SiC devices for electric vehicles, renewable power and
industrial applications. To offer the most advanced silicon carbide
processes and manufacturing capabilities, we jointly agreed to
provide our customers easy access to Soitec’s innovative SmartSiC™
via a consignment model.”
Emmanuel Sabonnadiere, Soitec Executive Vice
President Automotive and Industry comments: “Soitec’s SmartSiC
substrates and X-FAB’s foundry services are a perfect fit to meet
increasing demand for new SiC products. This cooperation is a
significant milestone for the deployment of SmartSiC in the U.S.
market and internationally, thanks to X-FAB’s global
footprint.”
About X-FABX-FAB is the leading
analog/mixed-signal and MEMS foundry group manufacturing silicon
wafers for automotive, industrial, consumer, medical and other
applications. Its customers worldwide benefit from the highest
quality standards, manufacturing excellence and innovative
solutions by using X-FAB’s modular CMOS and SOI processes in
geometries ranging from 1.0 µm to 110 nm, and its special silicon
carbide and MEMS long-lifetime processes. X-FAB’s analog-digital
integrated circuits (mixed-signal ICs), sensors and
micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) are manufactured at six
production facilities in Germany, France, Malaysia, and the U.S.
X-FAB employs approx. 4,500 employees worldwide.
For further information, please contact:MEDIA
RELATIONSAnja NoackAnja.noack@xfab.comINVESTOR RELATIONSUta
Steinbrecher Uta.steinbrecher@xfab.com
About SoitecSoitec (Euronext-
Tech Leaders), a world leader in innovative semiconductor
materials, has been developing cutting-edge products delivering
both technological performance and energy efficiency for over 30
years. From its global headquarters in France, Soitec is expanding
internationally with its unique solutions, and generated sales of
1.1 billion Euros in fiscal year 2022-2023. Soitec occupies a key
position in the semiconductor value chain, serving three main
strategic markets: mobile communications, automotive and
industrial, and smart devices. The company relies on the talent and
diversity of its 2,100 employees, representing 50 different
nationalities, working at its sites in Europe, the United States
and Asia. Soitec has registered over 4,000 patents. Soitec,
SmartSiC™ and Smart Cut™ are registered trademarks of Soitec. For
more information: https://www.soitec.com/en/ and follow us on X:
@Soitec_OfficialFor further information, please contact:MEDIA
RELATIONSCaroline Sasiamedia@soitec.com
INVESTOR RELATIONSSteve Babureckinvestors@soitec.com
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