Communicant Semiconductor Technologies
52°19′20″N 14°30′02″E / 52.3223°N 14.5006°E
Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG was a company based in
History
Communist era
IHP was founded as Institut für Halbleiterphysik (tr. Institute for Semiconductor Physics), on December 22, 1983, from the research part of its parent organization, Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder) (HFO, tr. "Semiconductor Factory in Frankfurt (Oder)"), then the largest IC factory in East Germany. HFO itself was founded in 1959. On the eve of reunification the plant had 8000 employees.[1]
After German reunification in 1990
After
Aftermath
Infineon stayed headquartered in Munich, Germany.[13] The failure of the project was the topic of detailed post-mortems.[14][15] In November 2006, the Hamburg-based solar energy company Conergy bought the 300,000-square-meter (74-acre) site and built a production plant for solar cells and modules.[16][17] As of 2009, around 450 people were employed there in a four-shift operation.[18]
Literature
- G. Valerius: Gleiche Chancen ungleich genutzt? : erwerbsbiographische Mobilitätspfade im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozeß zwischen 1990 und 1996 ; Studie zum beruflichen Verbleib einer ausgewählten Ingenieurgruppe des VEB Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder). (= Arbeitsberichte. No. 98,2). FIT/ Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) 1998, DNB-IDN 954110323.
External links
- E-Mail-Aktion zur Brandenburger Chipfabrik. November 14, 2003, heise online
- "Solarenergie : "Solarhauptstadt" Frankfurt (Oder).". Zeit Online. 2006-11-12. Archived from the originalon 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
References
- ^ a b c "Intel to Take a Minority Stake In East German Chip Plant". Wall Street Journal. 2001-02-08. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
IHP director Professor Abbas Ourmazd described this as the key technology for wireless Internet connections. ... Frankfurt and der Oder ... was a major technology center during the Communist era, housing a plant which employed 8,000 people.
- ^ Ewing, Jack (2002-10-13). "Eastern Germany's Silicon Dream". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
Finally, in July, after the workforce had shrunk below 100, he lost his job, too.
- ^ Valerius, G. (1998). "Gleiche Chancen ungleich genutzt? : erwerbsbiographische Mobilitätspfade im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozeß zwischen 1990 und 1996 ; Studie zum beruflichen Verbleib einer ausgewählten Ingenieurgruppe des VEB Halbleiterwerk Frankfurt (Oder)" [Lit. "Equal opportunities used unequally? : Employment biographic mobility paths in the East German transformation process between 1990 and 1996 ; Study on the professional fate of a selected group of engineers of the state-owned enterprise, Semiconductor Factory in Frankfurt (Oder)]. Arbeitsberichte FIT, Frankfurt Oder, Viadrina (in German). 98 (2).
- ^ "Proposed German Chip Plant Has Hard Time Securing Funds". Wall Street Journal. 2001-06-06. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
Intel has identified the "outstanding technology" offered by local state-owned semiconductor research institute IHP as the factor that had attracted it to the project.
- ^ "Communicant Semiconductor Technologies AG". Businessweek/Bloomberg. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
- ^ Norr, Henry (2001-06-25). "Big Blue designs faster chip". SFGate. San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
In February Intel announced an investment in a German company called Communicant Semiconductor Technologies, which is developing a silicon-germanium manufacturing facility.
- ^ "Communicant CEO resigns suddenly". EETimes. 2002-06-13. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
In April, Communicant secured $325 million in private equity.
- ^ a b Bartsch, Michael (2003-10-21). "Wundertätige werden weniger" [The Miracle Fades]. Die Tageszeitung (in German). Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ^ Mara, Michael (2003-10-12). "Betreiber der Chipfabrik glauben nicht mehr an ihren Erfolg". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 2015-10-30.
However, well-known suppliers [of semiconductor manufacturing equipment] have been warned by new information coming from the competition in Dresden (Infineon is developing new production facilities there) they shouldn't negotiate new contracts with Communicant because federal-state-guarantees have not been granted. Communicant believes that a powerful lobby, reaching as far as the Federal Ministry of Economics, wants to prevent the building of the chip factory in Frankfurt.
- ^ Karnitschnig, Matthew (29 April 2003). "Infineon Plans to Move Its Base From Germany to Switzerland". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
In what could become a test case for large companies seeking to escape Germany's high taxes and labor costs, Infineon Technologies AG is pursuing a plan to shift the chip maker's headquarters abroad.
- ^ O'Brien, Kevin (2004-03-18). "A German project still reeling from effects of downturn". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-27.
State lawmakers in December finally put an end to the factory when they rejected loan guarantees to cover 75 percent of the project's €1.3 billion cost sought by Communicant.
- ^ "E-Mail-Aktion zur Brandenburger Chipfabrik" [E-mail Campaign for Brandenburg chip factory]. Heise Online (in German). 2003-11-14. Retrieved 2015-10-30.
- ^ Clark, Don; Dauer, Ulrike (2014-08-20). "Infineon to Buy International Rectifier for $3 Billion". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
The Munich-based spinoff makes a wide variety of chips for industrial equipment, cars and other applications.
- ISBN 978-3-638-32356-7.
- ^ Litz, Christian (2004-03-01). "Der Plan" [The plan]. brand eins Wirtschaftsmagazin (in German). Retrieved 2015-10-30.
- ^ "Conergy hat jetzt ein blaues Dach" [Conergy now has a blue roof]. Märkische Oderzeitung (in German). 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ^ Schreiber, Jörg (2006-11-12). "Solarenergie : "Solarhauptstadt" Frankfurt (Oder)" [Solar Energy : "Capital City of Solar" Frankfurt (Oder)]. Zeit Online (in German). Retrieved 2015-10-30.
- ^ "Conergy hat jetzt ein blaues Dach". moz.de (in German). 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2021-04-03.