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300 mm wafer fab in Dresden

wafer fab in Dresden
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General information

  • Total investment
approx. 1 billion euros
  • Site
approx. 100,000 m2
(about 14 soccer fields)
  • Total floor space
approx. 72,000 m² of production area
and office space
  • Construction timeline
Groundbreaking in spring 2018, installation of machinery mid-/end 2019, pilot production to start at end of 2021
  • Associates in the completed plant
Up to 700
  • Qualified professionals needed
Experts from the semiconductor industry, such as process, production, and maintenance engineers, mathematicians, software engineers, as well as professionals with degrees in physics, chemistry, and microsystems technologies
  • Manufacturing technology
Highly automated wafer production
(300 mm silicon substrate wafers
with structures up to 65 nm in width – 1 nm equals one millionth of a millimeter)
  • Connected manufacturing
Every second, the machines will transmit one gigabit of production data. The volume of data produced is equivalent to more than 42 million written sheets of paper, weighing 22 metric tons.

Details on the building

  • Total building volume
600,000 m³
  • Concrete
approx. 66,500 m³
(about 8,300 concrete mixer trucks)
  • Steel
approx. 16,400 metric tons
(about 30 A380 passenger jets)
  • Earth moved/excavated
approx. 90,000 m³
(some 7,500 truckloads)
  • Bored piles for the foundation
approx. 860
  • Floor slabs
100 cm thick
  • Length of piping and ductwork
approx. 80 km
  • Length of electrical cabling
approx. 380 km
(from Dresden to Berlin and back)

Mobility is the largest Bosch Group business sector. It generated sales of 52.6 billion euros in 2022, and thus contributed almost 60 percent of total sales. This makes the Bosch Group one of the leading automotive suppliers. The Mobility business sector pursues a vision of mobility that is safe, sustainable, and exciting, and combines the group’s expertise in the domains of personalization, automation, electrification, and connectivity. For its customers, the outcome is integrated mobility solutions. The business sector’s main areas of activity are injection technology and powertrain peripherals for internal-combustion engines, diverse solutions for powertrain electrification, vehicle safety systems, driver-assistance and automated functions, technology for user-friendly infotainment as well as vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, repair-shop concepts, and technology and services for the automotive aftermarket. Bosch is synonymous with important automotive innovations, such as electronic engine management, the ESP anti-skid system, and common-rail diesel technology.

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 421,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2022). The company generated sales of 88.2 billion euros in 2022. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Bosch is pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artificial intelligence (AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.” The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 470 subsidiary and regional companies in over 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. With its more than 400 locations worldwide, the Bosch Group has been carbon neutral since the first quarter of 2020. The basis for the company’s future growth is its innovative strength. At 136 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 85,500 associates in research and development, of which nearly 44,000 are software engineers.

Additional information is available online at www.bosch.com, www.iot.bosch.com, www.bosch-press.com, www.twitter.com/BoschPress.

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