View of the cleanroom
industry association Silicon Saxony sees a good chance to score
Dresden world 12 June, 2015. The Saxon tech association “Silicon Saxony” holds realignment of the business location Dresden combine complex multifunction microelectronics, sensors, transducers, 5G wireless modules, digital and analog circuits, as well as in future emphasize on industry-oriented software development for a sensible path to global competition. The profile of the concentrated here semiconductor companies, the recent development directions of the Dresden Fraunhofer Institute and the TU would as well together and could lead to very competitive products, estimated “Silicon Saxony” -President Heinz Martin Esser an in cent, conversation.
Globalfoundries Dresden considers Cluster door for very large scale integration open
Heinz Martin Esser. Fig .: Silicon Saxony
At the same time one should not completely lose the thrust toward ever more highly integrated and fast processors and saving sight. Because Dresden belong – besides the Irish Intel factories and the STM works in Western Europe – the very few sites in Europe where this trend towards the micro- and nanoelectronics will still persecuted. As is especially the Dresden fabs of GlobalFoundries think, world, after all, the third largest chip contract manufacturer that produces, for example, processors and other circuits at the highest level of technology for AMD, Infineon and other industry leaders – and by production order for medium or even smaller regional high-tech company holds open the door to latest sound proofed semiconductor techniques. Meanwhile, there also is an open secret that will soon announce the US company in Dresden greater investment for a new technology level
A Fraunhofer employee shows in the cleanroom a 300mm wafer (r.) and a 450 disc compared. Fig .: Fraunhofer IISB
Even 450-mm project still wafts in the background
And so completely adopted the Saxon semiconductor lobbyists have also not yet by the desire , Europe’s first factory, the chips eventually to produce at 450 instead of 300-millimeter silicon wafers, may, perhaps still to settle even in the new X-ray exposure technique TEU in Dresden. However, this technological leap is currently moved in the face of extremely high investment costs and the progress of traditional technology paths into the background.
New power center of Fraunhofer also focuses more on multifunction electronic
Accordingly focus rather to integrate the newer projects of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FHG) in Dresden on the other Technologieweg, just more and more functions into individual chips, instead of chasing with immense capital outlay ever new tempo and Meiosis records. Then, the new national training center for micro- and nanoelectronics is aligned, the FHG president Reimund Neugebauer plans to open in Dresden in a few days. This is for the time being also equipped according to our information from the FHG and the Free State with relatively little start-up capital, but is expected to grow in the following years by funding money acquisition at federal, state and EU
Globalfoundries. FHG project strengthens Location – and that’s good for us
Jens Drews. Photo: Silicon Saxony
Also Globalfoundries Dresden can live with this line of approach: “Anything that strengthens the location Dresden is also good for us,” said spokesman Jens Drews. He reckon that by the new power center – that is docked at the Fraunhofer Photonics Institute IPMS in Dresden-Klotzsche -. The importance of IPMS department “CNT” will grow again
dream of playing in the Intel League largely faded away
This CNT was originally a center for nanoelectronics technologies with an initial capitalization in very different orders of magnitude – namely 86 million euros – launched in 2005 as an independent research institution, as it was believed in Germany yet, in a League with Intel, Samsung & amp; To be able to play co. But research direction gene maximum integration was no longer tenable after the Qimonda bankruptcy in 2009. At times, flirted FHG even with a closing. Especially through the intervention of Globalfoundries this was then folded so that the CNT as a – reduced -. Was integrated department in the Photonics Institute IPMS and realigned
Industry-oriented software as the second Focus
As a second line of approach for the location Dresden see many industry insiders software development on – but not for Apps and end programs such as in Berlin, but rather for industrial needs. In this segment, the software industry in Dresden is booming at present, estimated “Silicon Saxony” -Vizepräsidentin Gitta Haupold a
, the TU Dresden recently Saxony fastest supercomputers on – and that could improve the chances of Dresden on the contract for the planned central software center and also for new Excellence funds from the federal government. Photo: Heiko Weckbrodt
In addition, has announced the current CDU-SPD coalition to establish in the Free State, a center for software development, which is to attain at least national importance and charisma. Although a specific location is not yet known. Many indications, however, that this software center will have multiple sites, with here Dresden and Chemnitz, Leipzig and perhaps Mittweida should be on the shortlist. Possible priorities see Silicon Saxony, the Dresden University of Technology, as well as representatives of federal and state governments, for example, new program developments for processing large amounts of data (“Big Data”) for the next big automation and networking boost in factories (“Industry 4.0″) and for the so-called “Internet of Things”, ie the mass of computer networking, for example, phones, cars, smart clothes and watches. Author: Heiko Weckbrodt
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