Views on News: The Other 450 mm Shoe
The four companies openly pushing for 450 mm wafers are working on a plan to subsidize the equipment industry's 450 mm development effort, writes SI News Editor David Lammers. The carrot will be large, perhaps approaching a billion dollars when all is said and done. The 450 mm push by Intel, Samsung Electronics, TSMC and Toshiba also has an environmental angle, which dovetails with a new ESH push at the International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI, Austin, Texas).