By the end of the decade, the facility could grow to more than a million square feet and employ 1,800 jobs. The $1.3 billion Chatham County facility intends to increase Wolfspeed’s silicon carbide production by 10 times. Wolfspeed, formerly Cree, announced a new silicon carbide wafer facility in Chatham County to supply the Mohawk Valley fab in September. The $1 billion Marcy fab is the world’s largest 200mm silicon carbide fab with as many as 614 employees. The carmaker said its Castle Bromwich and Halewood sites would be operating a limited period of non-production from Monday (26 April). Wolfspeed previously announced deals with General Motors in October 2021 and Lucid Motors in April 2022, also for production at the Mohawk Valley facility.īiden visit: Latest sign of NY's burgeoning semiconductor industryīusiness: Micron investing $100B in Central NY semiconductor hub. The global semiconductor shortage has hit operations at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which has been forced to suspend production at two UK plants. The Jaguar Land Rover deal is the latest bringing business to the Marcy semiconductor fabrication facility. Wolfspeed provided silicon carbide chips for the Jaguar TCS Racing team in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. It’s not the first time the two companies have collaborated. Mini temporarily halted production at its Oxford plant. Take Mercedes for example, which had to pause production of its GLC as a direct result, while Mazda cut its production number by 7,000 cars in the first quarter of 2021. “By developing that into a strategic partnership as part of our Reimagine strategy, we can integrate Wolfspeed’s advanced silicon carbide technology into our next generation electric vehicles, delivering extended range and performance capabilities for our clients,” said Thierry Bollore, CEO of Jaguar Land Rover in a statement. The scale on which this microchip shortage has affected car production globally is pretty astonishing.
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