LFoundry
| LFoundry GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2008 |
| Seat | Landshut , Germany |
| management | Günther Ernst, CEO , COO |
| Number of employees | <1,000 (2011) |
| sales | $ 243 million (2015) |
| Branch | microelectronics |
| Website | www.lfoundry.com |
The LFoundry GmbH is a 2008 Landshut established semiconductor manufacturers . As a so-called foundry , LFoundry does not manufacture its own products, but is purely a contract manufacturer of microelectronic and microtechnical products based on the semiconductor material silicon .
history
The company started with a plant in Landshut, which was taken over in 2010 by the Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Renesas for the symbolic price of € 1. The factory was built in 1992 by Renesas predecessor Hitachi . It was operated by a subsidiary of LFoundry GmbH, Landshut Silicon Foundry GmbH, and had a capacity of 12,000 200 mm wafers per month and a class 1 clean room of 5,000 m² .
After the preliminary insolvency for the plant in Landshut was registered in June 2011 and the insolvency proceedings were opened on September 1, 2011, the plant was closed on October 6, 2011. The 150 nm production process at the Landshut plant was transferred to the Rousset plant acquired in 2010. Of the former 295 employees at the Landshut site, 235 were laid off.
In 2010, LFoundry bought a factory in Rousset (France) from Atmel (LFoundry Rousset SAS) for a symbolic price. This factory was opened by Atmel in 1996 and had a clean room of more than 10,000 m² Class 1 and a capacity of more than 20,000 200 mm wafers per month. In September 2011, 788 people were employed at the Rousset plant.
After Atmel , still a large customer of LFoundry, cut its orders by 30 percent, bankruptcy proceedings were initiated for LFoundry Rousset SAS at the end of June 2013. A French court then ordered the closure for economic reasons.
A partial sale to the Chinese manufacturer Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) was agreed in June 2016 for the remaining plant in Avezzano , Italy , which was taken over in May 2013 by the American semiconductor company Micron . SMIC takes over a 70 percent stake in Specialty Foundry LFoundry Srl in Avezzano, while the mother LFoundry Europe GmbH and its subsidiary Marsica Innovation SPA, which operates the Fab in Avezzano, will each retain shares of 15 percent. SMIC is the fifth largest wafer supplier with sales of USD 2.229 billion and a market share of 4.6 percent (as of 2015).
technology
The company offers various modular manufacturing technologies . Modular means that the customer can purchase the parts required for a basic process. Currently (as of June 2012) LFoundry offers customers two technologies: a 0.15 µm technology and a 0.11 µm technology.
The 0.15 µm basic process offers four metal levels and is designed for an operating voltage of 1.8 V. There are several options for the process. There are, for example, options for up to six metal levels, 3.3 V and 5 V. In addition, extensions for RF and HV applications, embedded memory and optoelectronic applications are available.
In addition to standard CMOS processes, LFoundry also offers the production of MEMS .
In addition to the actual production of the microchips, the company also offers so-called back-end services , for example wafer tests and packaging of prototypes.
LFoundry's factories are ISO 15408 and ISO / TS 16949 certified.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Dylan McGrath: SMIC Buys Italian Chip Foundry. EE Times , June 24, 2016, accessed June 28, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Alexander Schmid: LFoundry: Insolvency as a business model? Wochenblatt (Landshut), January 22, 2014, accessed June 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Siegfried Rüdenauer: Soon only 150 employees at LFoundry? In: Moosburger Zeitung . September 2, 2011 ( idowa.de [accessed September 4, 2011]).
- ^ Radio Trausnitz: Out for LFoundry in Landshut. October 7, 2011, archived from the original on October 27, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Europractice: LFoundry MPW runs canceled. October 25, 2011, archived from the original on November 12, 2011 ; accessed on October 25, 2011 (English).
- ↑ a b Peter Clarke: Lfoundry continues based on Rousset fab. EE Times , November 10, 2011, accessed April 18, 2012 .
- ↑ L'usine L Foundation de Rousset en redressement judiciaire. June 28, 2013, accessed July 11, 2013 (French).
- ^ SMIC acquires LFoundry and Enters into Global Automotive Electronics Market. (No longer available online.) In: News Release. LFoundry June 24, 2016; Archived from the original on June 28, 2016 ; accessed on June 28, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
