Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Infineon plans to double the size of its memory-chip assembly and test facility in Portugal, the company said Tuesday.
The company's chip-assembly and test plant was founded in 1996 in Vila do Conde, near Porto. Around 1,000 people are currently employed at the facility.
The company is now investing a total of EUR 230 million in the second module at the site. Work on expanding the facility kicked off in the fall 2003 and full capacity will be reached by mid-2006. It is planned to create about 500 new jobs.
The first module has around 5,000-square-meters of cleanroom area and the second about 7,000-square-meters. The facility is producing BGA packages for 256-megabit DRAMs.
Up to 600 million chips per year are planned as the maximum capacity when the new module in Porto is completed, which means that current capacity will be more than doubled as a result of the expansion. When it reaches its full capacity, about 30 to 40 percent of Infineon global memory chip output will be assembled and tested in Porto, the company said.
By: DocMemory
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