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Bosch Starting New Wafer Production in Europe

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 09 2021, @03:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the chips-und-wafer dept.

looorg writes:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/07/bosch-opens-1-2-billion-chip-plant-in-germany/

Bosch, one of the worlds largest engineering companies, is trying to cash in on the global chip shortage by starting production in Germany, even though it's apparently mostly a wafer plant and they are sending those to Asia for packaging and assembly.

A large chunk of it is probably for their own needs as they make everything from power tools to medical equipment.

But why not just do the assembly in Germany to? This shipping things back and forth — isn't this one of the points of failure that has been experienced during COVID-19?

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Wednesday June 09 2021, @02:04PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 09 2021, @02:04PM (#1143518) Journal

    But why not just do the assembly in Germany too? This shipping things back and forth — isn't this one of the points of failure that has been experienced during COVID-19?

    My guess would be that they're building one part of the process at a time, and if/after the first part is working well, they'll expand into the rest of the chain.

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