Apple buys former Maxim chip fab in North San Jose, neighboring Samsung Semiconductor

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  • Reply 21 of 23
    mattinozmattinoz Posts: 2,685member
    If you use Maxim's website you can draw any conclusion from lightening cables to cars and whole lot in between.
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  • Reply 22 of 23
    sanjoseguysanjoseguy Posts: 1member
    Another thing to consider is the zoning and permitting. Very difficult to get a greenfield fab built any more in CA. This is already set up as fab mfg space with the city/county/state. Conceivably they could gut it, install new tooling and be up and running within a couple years.
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    randmodulorandmodulo Posts: 1member
    It's typical to have mixed signal or analog chips in older processes.  Digital needs small feature size nodes to reduce power, increase performance, and integrate lots of gates.  Memory needs small feature size to integrate lots of cells.  I'd buy the it's for the car story.  Also I'd buy the keep an older node around because TSMC, GloFo, and Samsung won't.  I'd even wonder about expanding production for any mixed signal / RF / analog suppliers that don't have the leverage to secure enough wafers at their own or contract fabs.  
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