Friday, December 1st 2023
Apple to Become the First and Largest Customer of Amkor's Arizona Chip Packaging Plant
Apple has announced a partnership deal with Amkor, one of the leading chip packaging and testing manufacturers, which will build a two billion US Dollar silicon packaging facility in Peoria, Arizona. Being the only US-based OSAT (outsourced semiconductor assembly and test) provider, Amkor has decided to invest its funds and apply for the CHIPS Act, hoping to get a part of the funding from the US government's grant budget. The state-of-the-art facility in Arizona will feature over 500,000 square feet (46,452 square meters) of cleanroom space for packaging and testing chips. Using Amkor's latest technologies, the plant will support advanced computing, automotive, and communications chip packaging. It is tailored to meet the capacity needs of major customer Apple starting in 2025-2026. Apple will be the largest customer, with the Amkor facility packaging Apple-designed chips produced at the nearby TSMC wafer fabrication plant.
Building a chip packaging facility in the US with advanced packaging types means that the domestic manufacturing of advanced silicon is now possible across almost the entire supply chain, with OSAT now being present on US soil as well. In the initial phase, this partnership will enable domestic advanced packaging capabilities for leading-edge chips down to 3 nm nodes, which Apple plans to utilize for its A and M series of processors. Along with the creation of an estimated 2,000 local jobs, the investment serves as a boost to the local economy as well. Additionally, Amkor is TSMC's strategic partner, meaning future designs and packaging will cooperate without any delays.
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Apple, Amkor
Building a chip packaging facility in the US with advanced packaging types means that the domestic manufacturing of advanced silicon is now possible across almost the entire supply chain, with OSAT now being present on US soil as well. In the initial phase, this partnership will enable domestic advanced packaging capabilities for leading-edge chips down to 3 nm nodes, which Apple plans to utilize for its A and M series of processors. Along with the creation of an estimated 2,000 local jobs, the investment serves as a boost to the local economy as well. Additionally, Amkor is TSMC's strategic partner, meaning future designs and packaging will cooperate without any delays.
31 Comments on Apple to Become the First and Largest Customer of Amkor's Arizona Chip Packaging Plant
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-25/making-chips-requires-lots-of-water-and-gulp-taiwan-has-a-drought
this source says otherwise though, but who knows how vetted that article is
Yeah the worlds drinking water is not a good supply for stuff like this
Remove the salt from oceans and have as much as you want "global warming so plenty" pipe to suit business needs or move closer to oceans.
esg.tsmc.com/en/focus/greenManufacturing/waterResourceManagement.html
I was somewhat wrong but the numbers are good. The initial water source is the problem to supply as millions of liters are needed.
That being said, TSMC recently paused construction, due to protests by local/native Arizonians, because TSMC is importing almost all of its workers and its not benefiting the local economy with job boon as previously promised.
Depending on the type of desalinisation you will get dry salt and scale like in a coffee maker/ teapot / your boiler or brackish water.
if those are toxic they were toxic before they were processed.
The politicians who cried wolf, where's my SEMI?? These dopes never got down to brass tax on how this would work on a fundamental level given the US labor costs and issues.
Israel has plenty of those plants and the places where they dump the water in the med have become oases of sea life.
We don't lack water on this planet; we just don't like the majority of it, or its in the wrong place.
Water is going to be a thing soon, and it already is. Already there are lots of places on the planet where there just isn't enough.