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Greenfield fab
A fab built from bare land, including shell, cleanroom, utilities and tools, as opposed to expanding an existing site. It carries the longest schedule and highest capital cost but allows an optimal layout.
- Also known as
- New site fab
- Type
- Business
- Domain
- Fab Ops, Yield & Metrology, Fab economics
Notes
A leading-edge greenfield logic fab now runs well over 20 billion US dollars and roughly three to five years to volume.
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