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A foundry is an IC fabrication facility.
List of foundries
Sarnoff Corporation
Princeton, NJ
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC)
0.35 um to 90nm
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)
Produces ICs for many third parties include such large organizations as nVidia. TODO: image some nVidia chips to see if we can capture some identifying marks. Processes
- CLN40/CMN40 @ 40 nm
- CLN45/CMN45 @ 45 nm
- CLN65/CMN65 @ 65 nm
- CLN90/CMN90 @ 90 nm
- CL013/CM013 @ 0.13 µm
- CL013LP @ 0.13 µm
- CL013LV @ 0.13 µm
- CL018/CM018 @ 0.18 µm
- CL018HV @ 0.18 µm
- CL018LP @ 0.18 µm
- CL018LV @ 0.18 µm
- CL025/CM025 @ 0.25 µm
- CL035/CM035 @ 0.35 µm
- CL035HV_BCD @ 0.35 µm
- CL035HV_DDD @ 0.35 µm
- “65 nm, 90 nm, 0.13um, 0.15 / 0.18 µm, 0.22 / 0.25µm, 0.30 / 0.35µm, 0.5 µm”
Texas Instruments (TI)
Processes
- 32 nm
- 45 nm
- 90 nm
- 130 nm
- 200 mm wafers
TowerJazz
Israel: 6” and 8”
US: 8”
China “manufacturing partnerships”
“silicon germanium (SiGe) bipolar complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS), silicon BiCMOS, digital CMOS, analog CMOS and RF CMOS technologies”
TriQuint Semiconductor
TriQuint Semiconductor Texas (Richardson, TX)
United Microelectronic Corporation (UMC)
Processes
- 28 nm
- 40 nm
- 65 nm
- 90 nm
- 0.13 um
- 0.15 um
- 0.18 um
- 0.25 um
- 0.35 um
- 0.5 um
- 0.6 um
- 8“ wafers
Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation (VIS)
0.18um to 0.5um
8” wafers
X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries
“CMOS; 1.0 - 0.18 µm modular mixed-signal CMOS technologies. BiCMOS; 0.6 µm technology. SOI-CMOS; 0.6 µm & 1.0 µm CMOS and BCD technology on SOI substrates. MEMS Technologies. CUSP”
