News STMicroelectronics receives $2.2B to build the world’s first silicon carbide factory

[Admin]

The EU is investing in domestic chip production by investing €2B ($2.2B) in STMicroelectronics's ground-breaking silicon carbide facility.

STMicroelectronics receives $2.2B to build the world’s first silicon carbide factory : Read more

 

[King Anfalas]

I dont like to do this but this report is miss informed.
Wolfspeed already has the first and only 200mm SiC factory up and running in Utica, upstate NY. They also have only Mega 200mm SiC substrate factory coming online as we speak (1M sq ft) in Siler city, North Carolina and have another 200mm full SiC factory breaking ground in Sarland, Germany. STMicro is way behind and will never catch up to Wolfspeed.
Please check your facts before you write misleading articles like this and lie to your readers.
Thank you.

 

[bill001g]

I dont like to do this but this report is miss informed.
Wolfspeed already has the first and only 200mm SiC factory up and running in Utica, upstate NY. They also have only Mega 200mm SiC substrate factory coming online as we speak (1M sq ft) in Siler city, North Carolina and have another 200mm full SiC factory breaking ground in Sarland, Germany. STMicro is way behind and will never catch up to Wolfspeed.
Please check your facts before you write misleading articles like this and lie to your readers.
Thank you.

Tends to be fairly common for toms article written by outside parties. Would almost think a AI wrote this. He seems to just have rewritten a bunch of other articles and did not get the information directly from the announcement.

If you read the link he provided that the title is based on that article also uses that but it also included the words "fully integrated". Not sure exactly what that means but if you read farther into the article it talks about R&D being at the location also. So if the other companies did not do the R&D or some other step at other locations this technically would be the first one to do everything at one location.

Rather deceptive word choice. The company did not directly say that in their announcement but if you combine the statement they did make you could get that impression.

With this being a rewrite of the rewrite of the company official statement it gets distorted.

 

[King Anfalas]

Tends to be fairly common for toms article written by outside parties. Would almost think a AI wrote this. He seems to just have rewritten a bunch of other articles and did not get the information directly from the announcement.

If you read the link he provided that the title is based on that article also uses that but it also included the words "fully integrated". Not sure exactly what that means but if you read farther into the article it talks about R&D being at the location also. So if the other companies did not do the R&D or some other step at other locations this technically would be the first one to do everything at one location.

Rather deceptive word choice. The company did not directly say that in their announcement but if you combine the statement they did make you could get that impression.

With this being a rewrite of the rewrite of the company official statement it gets distorted.

Thanks for the explanation. Wolfspeed is 100% vertically integrated. They have R&D, make their own substrate and build their own SiC components. Besides that, they are suppliers for EV's as well as communications and power devices. STMicro is only now doing 150mm, Wolfspeed is a full generation more evolved.

 

[Diogene7]

I find it a bit pity that STMicroelectronics only plans a 200mm SiC wafers Fab, and didn’t take the opprtunity to attempt to leapfrog competitors by scaling up straight to 300mm SiC wafers…

I am confident that 300mm SiC wafers would ultimately allow to further reduce costs, and open even more opportunities to create advanced systems with leading edge 300mm silicon transistors wafers (ex: Wafer on Wafer (WoW) bonding : one wafer with 2nm GAA silicon transistor and one wafer with SiC power transistors,…).

Given enough time, scaling all semiconductor manufacturing to 300mm seems to lead to lower costs, and open new synergies opportunities…