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May 08, 2007 at 12:13 PM |
 There has been much speculation over the future of Texas Instruments' shuttered new 300mm fab in Richardson, Texas - dubbed RFab - since the chip manufacturer announced that it would stop internal manufacturing of digital CMOS devices in favour of foundry agreements.
According to a story by Mark LePedus at EETimes, Kevin Ritchie, senior vice president of TI's Technology and Manufacturing Group, said in an interview that KFab was not for sale, though the timing for first phase tool installation had been put back ‘a year-and-a-half.'
Although the EETimes story states that the original production schedule was for 2009-2010, Semiconductor Fabtech's own ‘300mm activity report' has consistently had initial tool install schedules starting in 2007, which was based on TI's previous comments and updates spanning several years.
The EETimes story also points out that TI's DMOS6 will expand internal production in the meantime.
During TI's most recent quarterly conference call, executives noted that DMOS6 was only about half utilized.
The EETimes story can be viewed here:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199300162
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