A shared approach to wafer fab support

Author

Breeze, Michael ; Davies, John

Author_Institution

Intel Ireland Ltd., Ireland

fYear

1995

fDate

13-15 Nov 1995

Firstpage

287

Abstract

For many years industry gurus have been urging closer links between suppliers and customers. At the Intel Fab 10 facility in Ireland, we believe this concept has been taken further than ever before in the semiconductor industry, via the Supplier Support Program. Intel´s Fab 10 facility does not follow the traditional Fab support structure, in that it has substituted supplier personnel to carry out the equipment engineering functions. The performance of the overall system in expediting the turn on of Intel´s billion dollar Pentium fab is discussed with respect to factory ramp time, the changing phases of the program and the consequences and expectations on line yield and die yield.

Keywords

integrated circuit manufacture; Intel Fab 10 facility; Ireland; Pentium fabrication; Supplier Support Program; die yield; equipment engineering functions; factory ramp time; line yield; semiconductor manufacturing; supplier personnel; wafer fab support; Conference management; Continuous improvement; Electronics industry; Manufacturing; Personnel; Production facilities; Quality assessment; Semiconductor device manufacture; Semiconductor materials; Software quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference and Workshop, 1995. ASMC 95 Proceedings. IEEE/SEMI 1995

ISSN

1078-8743

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2713-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASMC.1995.484388

Filename

484388