WACKER optimizes its global production network

Wacker Chemie AG intends to introduce a new site strategy to increase flexibility and further optimize the integrated production network of its Siltronic semiconductor subsidiary. Silicon wafer production is to be concentrated at lead sites according to individual diameters.

BMBF cooperation project DECISIF starts research on strained silicon

In our jobs as well as in our leisure time. Within the DECISIF project, scientific and industrial cooperation partners want to explore the potential of “strained silicon” in order to manufacture even more powerful and energy-saving devices for laptops, mobile phones and MP3-players.

Siltronic appoints Klaus Fuchs President & CEO

Dr. Klaus Fuchs has been appointed President & CEO of Siltronic AG effective January 1st, 2009. A resolution of Siltronic’s Supervisory Board to this end has been announced by the Munich-based semiconductor company today.

140 attendees get informed at Siltronic’s Supplier Day

Some 140 delegates from more than 80 companies worldwide have attended Siltronic’s Supplier Days (September 16, 17) in Burghausen (Germany). For the second time managers of Siltronic exchanged with their key suppliers.

Siltronic und Qimonda erforschen Grundlagen für neuartige Transistor-Technologie