Xilinx¡¯ Fabless Advantage
$136M equity investment in UMC
- guaranteed 33% capacity of new 8¡± fab
$300M advanced payment to Seiko
- guaranteed capacity for next 5 years
Access to 0.25? & 0.18? leading edge fab in 1997
Guaranteed fab access to support $2B/year revenue
50 engineers working in-house on process technology
- Developed FastFLASH process
- Developed Micro-Via antifuse process