Overview
X-FAB MEMS Foundry Itzehoe GmbH operates a 200mm MEMS foundry line in Itzehoe, Germany, on the Fraunhofer ISIT campus, with an annual manufacturing capacity of about 100,000 wafer starts (roughly 8,300 wafers per month). X-FAB took a 25.5% stake in MEMS Foundry Itzehoe GmbH (MFI, a spin-off from the Fraunhofer ISIT environment) in February 2011 and moved to 51% majority ownership in November 2012, renaming it X-FAB MEMS Foundry Itzehoe. The site specializes in MEMS and sensor processes (inertial sensors, microphones, micro-mirrors) complementing X-FAB's CMOS fabs. Key facility details include: The facility is situated at Itzehoe, Germany. It focuses on MEMS, Sensors and 1000, 110 process nodes on 200mm wafers. This site represents a production capacity of 8,300 wafers per month. Production at this facility commenced in 2009.
About X-FAB
X-FAB Silicon Foundries SE is a pure-play specialty foundry for analog/mixed-signal, MEMS, and silicon carbide technologies, focused on automotive, industrial, and medical end markets. Headquartered in Erfurt, Germany (holding company based in Tessenderlo, Belgium), it operates 6 wafer fabs across Germany, France, Malaysia, and the United States and does not sell its own IC products, manufacturing exclusively for customer designs.