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Brownfield fab
Additional capacity added inside or beside an existing fab site, reusing shell space, utilities and staff. It is faster and cheaper per wafer than greenfield but constrained by the existing footprint.
- Also known as
- Fab expansion, Phase expansion
- Type
- Business
- Domain
- Fab Ops, Yield & Metrology, Fab economics
Notes
Most announced capacity additions are brownfield phases, which is why headline fab counts understate real capacity growth.
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