X-FAB Silicon Foundries AG · Erfurt Germany

For X-FAB, making microchips is a fab-ulous business. X-FAB Silicon Foundries provides contract semiconductor manufacturing (or silicon foundry) services, producing analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for other chip companies. While the bigger foundries take on nearly all potential customers, foundries like X-FAB have found specialty niches for their services. X-FAB wafers are used in automotive, medical, consumer, and industrial applications. The company -- with wafer fabrication facilities (fabs) located in Germany, Malaysia, the UK, and the US -- has a combined capacity of about 70,000 eight inch equivalent wafer starts per month. X-FAB has sales offices in Asia, Europe, and the US. To read the full description, subscribe now.