Polar Semiconductor capacity at Bloomington, Minnesota
US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) on the Bloomington, Minnesota fab, stated 2024-09-09. One statement, with the wording it was made in. Nothing here is computed and nothing is added to anything else.
What was stated
Issued 2024-09-09 by US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) · Polar Semiconductor (Minnesota), CHIPS award page, September 2024
A planned figure: capacity the publisher said the site is expected to reach. A promise and a measurement are different facts and this record never puts them in one column.
the publisher's own approximation Their wording qualifies the precision; printing it as a plain figure would claim one they did not.
Wafer basis: 200mm actual. Two figures on different bases are 2.25 times apart before anything real has changed, which is why no figure here is shown without one.
The other half of the same sentence: the capacity the expansion is expected to reach. Same wording, same source, same day - and a different kind of claim, which is why `kind` separates them rather than a note explaining that one row means two things.
What this figure covers
Publishers state capacity at whatever level suits them: a phase, a site, a joint venture, a company. This one covers the sites below and no others.
The Bloomington, Minnesota fab
| Fab | Site | Country | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomington fab | Bloomington, Minnesota | US | operating |
This figure is never added to another. This record holds a capacity statement for 1 of the 1 Polar Semiconductor site it lists, so a sum of what is here would be a company total built from an incomplete set and published by nobody.
Everything stated about this site
2 statements, oldest first. A later figure never overwrites an earlier one here, so what was said before is still readable, with its date.
| Issued | As published | Kind | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-09 | from roughly 20,000 to roughly 40,000 wafer starts per month the publisher's own approximation | planned | this statement | Polar Semiconductor (Minnesota), CHIPS award page, September 2024 |
| 2024-09-09 | from roughly 20,000 to roughly 40,000 wafer starts per month the publisher's own approximation | installed | open | Polar Semiconductor (Minnesota), CHIPS award page, September 2024 |
Cite this
The figure in the publisher's own words, what it covers, the basis it is counted on, and the source. A capacity figure quoted without its basis or its coverage is the failure this block exists to prevent.
For a memo
US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office), planned capacity, the Bloomington, Minnesota fab: from roughly 20,000 to roughly 40,000 wafer starts per month, issued 2024-09-09 (the publisher's own approximation), on a 200mm actual wafer basis. Source: Polar Semiconductor (Minnesota), CHIPS award page, September 2024, https://www.nist.gov/chips/polar-semiconductor-minnesota-bloomington. Recorded by Silicon Almanac, which keeps every statement made about this site: https://siliconalmanac.com/figure/fab-capacity/polar-bloomington-2024-09-after/
Everything in one paragraph. There is no earlier statement about this site to carry.
For the bottom of a slide
Source: US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) (2024-09-09), Polar Semiconductor (Minnesota), CHIPS award page, September 2024. Figure as published is the publisher's own approximation. Wafer basis: 200mm actual. Statement history: https://siliconalmanac.com/figure/fab-capacity/polar-bloomington-2024-09-after/
One line. The value is deliberately not repeated here: on a slide the number is on the slide, and a footnote that restates it is one edit away from disagreeing with it.
For a spreadsheet
publisher covers kind value_as_published wafer_basis issued qualifiers source_title source_url previous_value previous_issued figure_page retrieved US Department of Commerce (NIST CHIPS Program Office) The Bloomington, Minnesota fab planned from roughly 20,000 to roughly 40,000 wafer starts per month 200mm actual 2024-09-09 the publisher's own approximation Polar Semiconductor (Minnesota), CHIPS award page, September 2024 https://www.nist.gov/chips/polar-semiconductor-minnesota-bloomington https://siliconalmanac.com/figure/fab-capacity/polar-bloomington-2024-09-after/
Two lines, tab separated: the headings and one row. The wafer basis and the qualifiers are columns rather than notes, so a row pasted into a model carries them where the model can see them.
Elsewhere in this record
No values here, only where to find them. Two capacity figures side by side is a comparison, and these are not comparable unless they share a wafer basis.
Other sites with a stated capacity: The Kumamoto site as a whole, both fabs together · The planned Dresden fab, as described when the joint venture was established · The Dresden fab, restated at groundbreaking · The Agrate Brianza 300mm fab · The Agrate Brianza 300mm fab, beyond the 2027 target · The Crolles 300mm fab · The Crolles 300mm fab, beyond the 2027 target · The Sherman, Texas site as the award describes it, across the fabs it funds