Pragmatic opens UK’s first 300mm wafer fab
Durham-based fab will focus on making IGZO-based flexible chips
Pragmatic Semiconductor has opened the UK’s first 300mm semiconductor wafer fab at Pragmatic Park in Durham.
The facility will produce the company's FlexIC devices based on IGZO (Indium gallium zinc oxide)-based technology. They chips are for smart object and IoT applications in fields such as consumer, industrial, and healthcare.
David Moore, CEO, Pragmatic Semiconductor said: “I am incredibly proud of what the team has achieved and the ambition of our mission to enable item level intelligence in over a trillion sustainable, smart items over the next decade. Such intelligence at scale has the power to accelerate the digital transformation across industries.”
Pragmatic Park has the capacity to host up to nine fabrication lines, each capable of producing billions of these flexible chips per year. The company also has a modular ‘Fab-in-a-Box’ approach that supports co-location of end-to-end FlexIC manufacturing at customers sites.
Over the next five years Pragmatic anticipates creating over 500 highly skilled jobs in the North-East of England and Cambridge.
