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25.06.2018

Factsheet

Business/economy

Semiconductor production at Bosch

Current portfolio Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), semiconductors, and mass-flow sensors for vehicle ECUs; acceleration, yaw-rate, and pressure sensors for vehicle ECUs and consumer applications; surround and geomagnetic sensors and projectors for consumer applications Manufacturing locations Reutlingen, Germany (150 mm and 200 mm technology) Patents Bosch holds more than 1,000 patents and patent applications relating to MEMS and semiconductor technology. Market Bosch manufactures semiconductors and MEMS sensors for its own use. A large portion of the portfolio is also offered in the open market. History For more than 45 years, Bosch has been developing and manufacturing microelectronic components and systems; it developed the microfabrication technique for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) nearly 25 years ago, and is now the world market leader in this field.

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25.06.2018

Factsheet

Business/economy

Laying the foundation stone for 300 mm wafer fab in Dresden

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 technologye 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)Internet For job seekers www.bosch-career.de/jobs Site for the Dresden location https://www.bosch.de/en/ourcompany/bosch-in-germany/dresden Bosch semiconductors www.bosch-semiconductors.com

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