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Cypress Semiconductor to close Round Rock fab by end of 2008 |
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Dec 19, 2007 at 05:18 PM |
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 Cypress Semiconductor has said that it will close its 150mm facility, Fab 2, in Round Rock, Texas by late 2008 as it shifts production to smaller geometries at its foundry partners and its more advanced fab in Minnesota.
“Fab 2 is a very efficient and well-run operation but the factory is small and runs older 0.35 micron process technologies,” commented Shahin Sharifzadeh, Executive Vice President of Manufacturing at Cypress Semiconductor. “All of our newer products are being designed on more advanced process technologies, so it is simply more cost effective for us to shift manufacturing elsewhere than to retool Fab 2.”
Cypress opened Fab 2 in 1987 with 68 employees and 18,000 square feet of cleanroom space. The plant was expanded to 32,000 square feet in 1999 and currently employs 245 people. In recent years, the site has been building legacy USB, programmable logic, timing and communications devices, the company said.
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