> The country also has 300-mm equipment purchased from AMD's fab near Dresden in the early 2000s.
That’s quite an impressive process size.
That’s quite an impressive process size.
300mm is actually a standard wafer size. I think that's what most modern fabs use now; there was some push to move to 450, but I think the major players have all determined it to be more trouble than it's worth for now. I don't keep up-to-date on these sorts of things though so maybe 450mm wafers are used for some significant products now.
That said, the wafer size doesn't really tell you anything about how advanced their lithography is.
It's a typo, you can't make a usable chip out of foot long transistors :)
Micron seems to be the US company that we might be familiar with.
I guess they're different companies