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
An installed figure: capacity the publisher said the site has.
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 award describes an expansion "from roughly 20,000 to roughly 40,000 wafer starts per month". ONE SENTENCE, TWO FACTS: a capacity the fab has and one it is expected to reach. They are recorded as two entries because they are different kinds of statement - one installed, one planned - and a single row would have to drop one of them. Both carry `approximate`, because "roughly" is the publisher's own word. That is NOT a bound: it points in no direction. It withdraws a claim about precision, which is a different thing from "more than", and the two now have separate fields. ⛔ THE WAFER BASIS IS THIS RECORD'S READING, not the publisher's: the award says "wafer starts per month" with no size. Polar's Bloomington fab is recorded in fabs.json as a 200mm line, so the figure is filed on the 200mm actual basis. If that fab row is wrong, this figure is wrong with it.
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 | open | 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 | this statement | 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), installed 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. Previously from roughly 20,000 to roughly 40,000 wafer starts per month (planned), issued 2024-09-09 (the publisher's own approximation). 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-before/
Everything in one paragraph, including what was stated before.
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-before/
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 installed 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 from roughly 20,000 to roughly 40,000 wafer starts per month 2024-09-09 https://siliconalmanac.com/figure/fab-capacity/polar-bloomington-2024-09-before/
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