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clear weapon in 2009, and began identifying manufacturing needs for the B61 and W88 programs, said fab manager Dale Hetherington. “A large part of our mission is
research and development and work for other customers besides the nu- clear weapons program, so while we’ve been getting ready for this (nu- clear weapon) production and doing this 1,000 line-item production plan, we’ve still been manufacturing proto- types for the (nuclear weapons) com- plex, for other missions around San- dia and other labs as well,” Hether- ington said. “So it’s not as if we shut down and did nothing but get ready for production.” Volume for ASIC production
will be more than three times that of W76-1 production. MESA uses a build-ahead process: build many wafers and store them so they’re ready when needed. “We typically build early be-
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cause the wafers have to be diced in- to chips, the chips packaged and de- livered to subsystem customers, and those subsystems then integrated in- to higher-level systems,” Hethering- ton said, adding Sandia has a pro- duction plan that factors in all the various chips for the B61, W88 and W87 Mk21 fuze programs. Wafer production is a critical part of the ASIC process but is only
one step toward the final product and acceptance by the National Nuclear Security Administration. “While we build the wafers in our fab, when we’re done with them they have to be electrically tested, they need burn-in and reliability evaluation, they need packaging, so there’s multiple sets of work activities from initial customer engagement through the design phases and into manufacturing,” said fab manager Alan Mitchell. Senior manager Paul Raglin
said MESA’s fabs are unique; they do research and development and pro- duction of ASICs and heterojunction bipolar transistors, all in-house with trusted components. “We can go di- rectly into the stockpile with all the certifications,” he said. The Sandia silicon fab revital-
ization program has pledged $150 million over seven years to replace aging tools and to transition MESA to 8-inch wafers by about 2020, Raglin said. Sandia National Laboratories is
a multi-program laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Mar- tin Corp., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA, Sandia has major R&D responsi- bilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies and economic competitiveness. r
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must depend on a dual supply chain to accommodate both leaded and lead-free processes,” said Sharon Starr, IPC Director of Market Re- search. “The study finds that main- taining dual processes, along with the growing scarcity of some leaded components, adds extra costs. The study examines the use of
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Fab Equipment Growth Continues into 2016
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monitors 36 construction projects with investments totaling over $5.6 billion in 2015 and 20 construction projects with investments of over $7.5 billion in 2016. According to the SEMI report,
fab equipment spending in 2015 will be driven by Memory and Foundry — with Taiwan and Korea projected to become the largest markets for fab equipment at $10.6 billion and $9.3 billion, respectively. The market in the Americas is forecast to reach $6.1 billion, with Japan and China follow- ing at $4.5 and $4.4 billion, respec- tively. Europe/Mideast is predicted to invest $2.6 billion. The fab equip- ment market in South East Asia is
expected to total $1.2 billion in 2015. Learn more about the SEMI
World Fab Forecast and plan to at- tend the SEMI/Gartner Market Sym- posium at SEMICON West 2015 on Monday, July 13 for an update on the semiconductor supply chain market outlook. In addition to presentations from Gartner analysts, Christian Dieseldorff of SEMI will present on “Trends and Outlook for Fabs and Fab Capacity” and Lara Chamness will present on “Semiconductor Wafer Fab Materials Market and Year-to-Date Front-End Equipment Trends.” Contact: SEMI, 3081
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